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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.

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A beautifully written meditation on landscape. -- Sunday Times (London) Olivia Laing joins the best nature writers...Laing is a brilliant wordsmith and this is a beautifully accomplished book. -- Independent (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 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) A beautifully written meditation on landscape. -- Sunday Times (London) 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 Olivia Laing joins the best nature writers...Laing is a brilliant wordsmith and this is a beautifully accomplished book. -- Independent (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 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) 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)

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Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. Her work appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Frieze, and New York Times. She's a Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow and was 2014 Eccles Writer in Residence at the British Library. Her first book, To the River, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. The Lonely City has been shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize. She lives in Cambridge. www.OliviaLaing.co.uk. Follow @OliviaLanguage on Twitter. Kate Reading is an Audie Award-winning narrator and has received dozens of Earphones Awards. She has been named by AudioFile magazine as a ""Voice of the Century,"" as well as the Best Voice in Science Fiction & Fantasy in 2008 and 2009 and Best Voice in Biography & Culture in 2010. She is also a theater actor in the Washington, DC, area and has been a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company since 1987. Her work onstage has been recognized by the Helen Hayes Awards Society, among others.

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