The River (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802170071)

Tricia Wastvedt's debut novel, met with critical acclaim in England, is a hypnotically readable portrait of a community scarred, but eventually reawakened, by its grief. Two children drown during the summer of 1958 in the English village of Cameldip. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are bound together in guilt and anger, and as the years pass, the tragedy weaves itself into the invisible fabric of village life.
Robert, finding solace in labor, builds several tree houses that transform the look of the town, and as the years pass the structures grow entwined with other houses. It is thirty years after the tragedy when Anna, a young pregnant woman escaping her life in London, arrives in Cameldip and is taken in by Isabel. As Anna slowly uncovers the secrets of the town's past, she becomes inexorably drawn into the conflict in which Isabel and Robert have been locked for three decades. A story of families, old scars, and new beginnings, The River is a lyrical and haunting tale of betrayal, failure, love, and fortitude.

Author: Tricia Wastvedt
ISBN-10: 0802170072
ISBN-13: 9780802170071
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2005
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.56w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 77
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2005 pg. 146
Library Journal 02/15/2005 pg. 121
Booklist 03/01/2005 pg. 1143
Publishers Weekly 03/28/2005 pg. 54
Kliatt 01/01/2006 pg. 18