Olivia Laing

A beautiful, lyrical book and a major new voice in British nature writing

A Journey Beneath the Surface

To the River

Emma Bose

“A river passing through a landscape catches the world and gives it back redoubled: a shifting, glinting world more mysterious than the one we customarily inhabit.”

Laing’s serpentining meditation on rivers, more specifically Woolf’s Ouse. Biographical, mythical, and historical currents are relayed through her poetic prose a la Solnit’s Wanderlust. Swept away in one sitting!

To the River A Journey Beneath the Surface

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