To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
ISBN-10
1786891581
ISBN-13
9781786891587
Category
Ouse River Valley (England)
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2017-10-05
Author
Olivia Laing

Description

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked. Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape and how ghosts never quite leave the place they love.

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