Go as a River

Informationen zum Autor Shelley Read is 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. Klappentext When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life? GO AS A RIVER is the powerful and emotional Sunday Times bestselling novel which you'll never forget. _ 'A sweeping story of survival and becoming' Women's Prize for Fiction ' Spellbinding' The Times 'Beautiful' Daily Mail 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. 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. When Victoria and Wil meet on a street corner, their unexpected connection ignites both passion and danger, revelations and secrets. 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. Go as a River is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power. What readers are saying: 'An incredible read. Emotional heartbreaking , but very 'real' Five stars * 'Oh, how i loved this book . Going to be Christmas presents for all my family' Five stars * 'After reading non-stop all night , i'm feeling very emotional, still' Five stars * 'From the moment i started reading, i found it very hard to put down ' Five stars * Zusammenfassung When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life? GO AS A RIVER is the powerful and emotional Sunday Times bestselling novel which you'll never forget. _ 'A sweeping story of survival and becoming' Women's Prize for Fiction ' Spellbinding' The Times 'Beautiful' Daily Mail 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. 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. When Victoria and Wil meet on a street corner, their unexpected connection ignites both passion and danger, revelations and secrets. 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. Go as a River is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power. What readers are saying: 'An incredible read. Emotional heartbreaking , but very 'real' Five stars * 'Oh, how i loved this book . Going to be Christmas presents for all my family' Five stars * 'After reading non-stop all night , i'm feeling very emotional, still' Five stars ...

Autorentext

Shelley Read is 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.

Klappentext

When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life?

GO AS A RIVER is the powerful and emotional Sunday Times bestselling novel which you'll never forget.
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'A sweeping story of survival and becoming' Women's Prize for Fiction
'Spellbinding' The Times
'Beautiful' Daily Mail

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.

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.

When Victoria and Wil meet on a street corner, their unexpected connection ignites both passion and danger, revelations and secrets.

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.

Go as a River is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power.

What readers are saying:

'An incredible read. Emotional heartbreaking, but very 'real' Five stars *
'Oh, how i loved this book. Going to be Christmas presents for all my family' Five stars *
'After reading non-stop all night, i'm feeling very emotional, still' Five stars *
'From the moment i started reading, i found it very hard to put down' Five stars *