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Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year

An RSL Ondaatje Prize Shortlist selection

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore.

Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape—and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.

Editorial Reviews

“Olivia Laing joins the best nature writers…Laing is a brilliant wordsmith and this is a beautifully accomplished book.” —Independent (London)

“A beautifully written meditation on landscape.” —Sunday Times (London)

“By turns lyrical, melancholic and exultant, To the River just makes you want to follow Olivia Laing all the way to the sea.” —Daily Telegraph (London)

“Laing’s language is supple and saturated, bright and dappled in this gracefully meandering river of words and deeply pleasurable journey across Woolf’s tidal world and the many-storied English countryside.” —Booklist

“Listeners will enjoy hearing Kate Reading’s crisply pleasant voice as they imagine themselves in author Olivia Laing’s shoes as she walks the length of the Ouse River in Sussex, England…The comfortable pacing of Reading’s narration reflects the tone of Laing’s musings on the river’s power and presence across the centuries…The solitude of this meditative journey is occasionally interrupted by locals, whose accents and vibrancy are deftly portrayed by Reading.” —AudioFile

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Author Bio: Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing, a widely acclaimed writer and critic, is the author of seven books, including her first novel, Crudo, which was a London Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages, and in 2018 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction.

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Format:	Retail CD	Format:	MP3 CD
Available Formats :	Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category:	Nonfiction/Nature
Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing	Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing
CDs:	7	CDs:	1
Runtime:	8.49
ISBN:	9781982664084	ISBN:	9781982664091
Audience:	Adult
Language:	English

To the River: A Journey beneath the Surface

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