Sue says about The Flow:"A return visit to the site of a dear friend’s death in a kayaking accident on the River Rawthey in Cumbria years before rekindles Amy Jane Beer’s love of waterways and the sense of connection with the natural world that they inspire. She travels around the UK exploring streams and rivers and writes lyrically and informatively on themes of loss and healing, wildness, mythology and history." On New Year’s Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer’s beloved friend Kate set out with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and unmoored. Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a new phase of exploration. The Flow is a book about water, and, like water, it meanders, cascades and percolates through many lives, landscapes and stories. From West Country torrents to Levels and Fens, rocky Welsh canyons, the salmon highways of Scotland and the chalk rivers of the Yorkshire Wolds, Amy-Jane follows springs, streams and rivers to explore tributary themes of wildness and wonder, loss and healing, mythology and history, cyclicity and transformation. Threading together places and voices from across Britain, The Flow is a profound, immersive exploration of our personal and ecological place in nature. Author: Beer, Amy-Jane Europe Published on 3 August 2023 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Wildlife) in the United Kingdom.Paperback / softback | 400 pages197 x 130 x 25 | 284g
