Go as a River von Shelley Read

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 320 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Verlag: Random House UKDoubleday
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780857529411

A lush tale of female resilience. Evokes the awe-inspiring beauty of the Colorado landscape with affectionSUNDAY TIMES

When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life?<br><br>GO AS A RIVER is the powerful and emotionalSunday Timesbestselling novel which you'll never forget.<br>___________<br>'A sweeping story of survival and becoming'Women's Prize for Fiction<br>'Spellbinding'TheTimes<br>'Beautiful'Daily Mail<br><br>1940s Colorado: Teenage Victoria Nash is the sole surviving woman in a family of troubled men. She spends her days running the household on her family's peach farm.<br><br>Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past. Displaced from his tribal land, he wants to believe one place is just like another.<br><br>When Victoria and Wil meet on a street corner, their unexpected connection ignites both passion and danger, revelations and secrets.<br><br>After tragedy strikes, Victoria is propelled away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope, and her own untapped strength. Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever.<br><br>Go as a Riveris a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power.<br>__________<br>What readers are saying:<br><br>'Anincredibleread.Emotional heartbreaking, but very'real'Five stars *****<br>'Oh, how i loved this book. Going to be Christmas presents for all my family'Five stars *****<br>'After reading non-stop all night, i'm feeling very emotional, still'Five stars *****<br>'From the moment i started reading,i found it very hard to put down'Five stars *****<br><br>________________

3GBShelley Readis a fifth generation Coloradoan who lives with her family in the Elk Mountains of the Western Slope. She was a Senior Lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades, where she taught writing, literature, environmental studies, and Honors, and was a founder of the Environment&Sustainability major and a support program for first-generation and at-risk students. GO AS A RIVER, her first novel, is inspired by the landscape she comes from and will be published in over twenty-eight territories.

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