The River
“Kate Reading’s work here is immensely skillful; she peoples this stunning story with breathing characters of all ages and stations and with accents bred from the Scottish isles to Provence. Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
During the summer of 1958 in the English village of Cameldip, two children drown while playing in a leaky boat on the river. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are bound together in guilt and anger. Thirty years later, a young woman secretly pregnant and determined to make a new start for herself arrives in Cameldip. Taken in by Isabel, she slowly uncovers the secrets of the village’s past and is inexorably drawn into the conflict.
A story of families, old secrets, and new beginnings, The River is a lyrical and haunting tale of betrayal, failure, love, and fortitude.
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