The River Never Left Her

In present-day Zürich an American expat Emily Benz buys a set of personal archives at an online auction setting off an investigation into the life of a British woman raised in the early part of the twentieth century in China. What seemed like an innocuous tin of bonbons sold by a grandson soon turns into a can of worms that can't be closed again revealing family dysfunction that stretches back generations a fairy-tale childhood four marriages and a liaison. Emily must reconcile the woman's adult biography with the vivid memoir of China seen through the eyes of a child. This most unexpected memoir moves between China at the turn of the last century scandal in the high society of 1920s England and a tenacious widow living in the Switzerland of today.