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Once Upon a River
by Diane Setterfield
This is such a beautifully written book.
You are immediately drawn into a world of storytelling centred on the River Thames and its nearby dwellers. The part folklore, part fantasy, part mystery is told through the lives of the characters whose existence are all dependent on the river in different ways but linked together by an event, and in particular a person, that we are introduced to right at the beginning.
The interweaving of the naivety based mysteries, appropriate to the time that the book is set in, with elements of the supernatural is carried out with elegance. The story simply works. Diane Setterfield does an amazing job guiding us through the mystery of the child that was dead and then wasn’t. In a world where story telling is held with high esteem, Diane is head and shoulders above anyone else.
Thank you NetGalley and Random House UK for a review copy.
You are immediately drawn into a world of storytelling centred on the River Thames and its nearby dwellers. The part folklore, part fantasy, part mystery is told through the lives of the characters whose existence are all dependent on the river in different ways but linked together by an event, and in particular a person, that we are introduced to right at the beginning.
The interweaving of the naivety based mysteries, appropriate to the time that the book is set in, with elements of the supernatural is carried out with elegance. The story simply works. Diane Setterfield does an amazing job guiding us through the mystery of the child that was dead and then wasn’t. In a world where story telling is held with high esteem, Diane is head and shoulders above anyone else.
Thank you NetGalley and Random House UK for a review copy.