Once Upon a River
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780857525666 (0857525662)
Publish date: 2019-01-17
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
by Diane Setterfield During a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the Thames, an injured man with a dead child are brought in from the river. The local healer is brought in and somehow, the dead child comes back to life. This story had a poetic quality to the prose in the beginning redol...
It’s finally happened. I have read a Diane Setterfield book in which I liked the prose AND the plot AND the characters. The third time really is the charm, apparently. Persistence pays off! Sort of! The story meanders like the titular river, seeming to flow slowly on the surface with hidden curren...
This enchanting historical novel set in the 19th century is centered around a mysterious little girl who appears to have died of drowning in the Thames and then comes back to life. Three claims come for the mute girl, but is she a kidnapped daughter, an unknown granddaughter, or a lost sister? And w...
Diane Setterfield has such an amazing way with words, I enjoyed every page of this book and, interspersed with audiobooks and other reads, I managed to make it last for several weeks. Sadly, I have finally finished, but I've promised myself to listen to the audiobook in a few months, something I nev...
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield is a difficult book to categorize because it doesn't fit neatly into any one genre. It's historical fiction looked at through the medium of magical realism with a healthy dose of the supernatural. All of the interwoven narratives (of which there are 4 main ones...
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