BY THE RIVER: ESSAYS FROM THE WATERS EDGE (PB)

Twelve writers consider rivers and their effect on our lives, in essays which blend nature writing with memoir. Tessa Hadley revisits Rumer Godden’s The River; Jo Hamya pays homage to Virginia Woolf; Michael Malay goes night fishing for eels by the river Severn; Marchelle Farrell revisits the tropical waterfalls of her childhood home in Trinidad. Exploring the cultural, social and psychological significance of the rivers that run through our countryside, cities, societies and minds, this is a celebration of water and its transformative qualities.