Go as a River

<p><b><i>When a moment changes everything how do you live the rest of your life?</i></b><br><br>GO AS A RIVER is the powerful and emotional <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling novel which you'll never forget.<br>___________<br><br><b>'A sweeping story of survival and becoming'</b> Women's Prize for Fiction<br>'<b>Spell-binding' </b><i>Times</i><br><br>1940s Colorado.<br><br>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>But when 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><b><i>Go as a River</i></b> <b>is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettable characters and a breathtaking natural setting it is a sweeping story of survival and becoming of the deepest mysteries of love truth and fate.</b><br><br>________________<br><b>'A mesmerising coming-of-age story. Simply stunning</b><b>' </b><i>Woman & Home<br><br>'</i><b>A lush tale of female resilience' </b><i>Sunday Times<br><br><b>'</b></i><b>A powerful love story with an unforgettable heroine'</b> <i>Daily Express</i><br><br><b>'A spellbinding novel of finding home where you least expect it' </b><i>Times</i><br><br><b>'Beautiful and compassion-filled'</b> <i>Daily Mail</i><br><br><b>'Soaring and compassionate. Set against the breathtaking beauty of the natural world'</b> <i>Independent</i><br><br><b>'Uplifting and completely unforgettable'</b> BONNIE GARMUS author of <i>Lessons in Chemistry</i><br><br><b>'A lush beautiful strong book. It took me on such a transformative life journey. I could not put it down'</b> CLOVER STROUD<br><br><b>'Completely spellbinding vivid and luminous'</b> JANE GREEN</p> <b>Spellbinding novel of finding home where you least expect it</b> <b>Shelley Read's lyrical voice is a force of nature and when she lends it to a woman leading a hardscrabble life in rural Colorado the result is tragic uplifting and completely unforgettable</b> <b>A key title for 2023. This soaring compassionate tale of female resilience is set against the breath-taking beauty of the natural world - its trees and mountains and light</b> <b>Beautiful lyrical and vivid ... Shelley Read's beautifully drawn characters are brought to life against the backdrop of the Colorado mountains. Full of wisdom and strength ... this is a powerful love story with an unforgettable heroine at its heart</b> A <b>beautiful compassion-filled debut - a hymn to the cycles of the natural world and testament to the resilience of the human spirit</b> <b>Shelley Read </b>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-five territories.