To the River
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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 {OCLCbr#96} and how ghosts never quite leave the place they love.
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Honestly, I thought this was going to be about rivers in general but it turned out to be an exploration of the River Ouse in Sussex, the length of which Olivia Laing walks throughout this book. Part memoir, part nature writing, part local history, this was interesting enough, especially the parts about Virgina Woolf, who drowned herself in the river in 1941. I'll definitely read more by Olivia Laing, preferably about something that I'm more invested in. Derp.
