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To the River: A Journey beneath the Surface Audiobook
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Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore.
Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape—and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.
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“Listeners will enjoy hearing Kate Reading’s crisply pleasant voice as they imagine themselves in author Olivia Laing’s shoes as she walks the length of the Ouse River in Sussex, England…The comfortable pacing of Reading’s narration reflects the tone of Laing’s musings on the river’s power and presence across the centuries…The solitude of this meditative journey is occasionally interrupted by locals, whose accents and vibrancy are deftly portrayed by Reading.”
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“Olivia Laing joins the best nature writers…Laing is a brilliant wordsmith and this is a beautifully accomplished book.”
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“A beautifully written meditation on landscape.”
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“By turns lyrical, melancholic and exultant, To the River just makes you want to follow Olivia Laing all the way to the sea.”
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“Laing’s language is supple and saturated, bright and dappled in this gracefully meandering river of words and deeply pleasurable journey across Woolf’s tidal world and the many-storied English countryside.”
— Booklist
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An RSL Ondaatje Prize Shortlist selection
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Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year
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About Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing is the author of five acclaimed works of nonfiction and the recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction. Her first novel, Crudo, won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize.
About Kate Reading
Kate Reading, named an AudioFile Golden Voice, has recorded hundreds of audiobooks across many genres, over a thirty–year plus career and won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. Among other awards, she has been recognized as an AudioFile Magazine Voice of the Century, Narrator of the Year, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and winner of an Publisher’s Weekly’s Listen-Up Award. She records at her home studio, Madison Productions, Inc., in Maryland.