To the River

To the River

2011 • 283 pages

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15

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.

August 19, 2021