All Rivers Run Free - Natasha Carthew (Paperback) 21-02-2019

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Raw, passionate, hallucinatory' Rachel Holmes 'Extraordinary, beautiful and wild allegory for our times' Katharine Norbury 'Hypnotic and powerful' Fanny Blake, Daily Mail A woman o n the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life. On the flooded coast of Cornwall, Ia Pendilly ekes out a fierce life in a childless marriage, as rough and stubborn as the sea. When a strange young girl washes up on the beach, Ia's rescue is only the beginning of a dangerous journey - one that will take them downriver, into the fringes of a collapsing society and for Ia, towards something she hopes might be love. A vision of the near-future and an odyssey of motherhood, All Rivers Run Free is a true original from a powerful new voice.. Show more