When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life?
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‘A SWEEPING STORY OF SURVIVAL AND BECOMING’ WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION
‘SPELLBINDING’ THE TIMES
‘BEAUTIFUL’ DAILY MAIL
1940s Colorado: Teenage Victoria Nash is the only woman in a family of troubled men.

When she meets Wilson Moon, a young drifter with a mysterious past, on a street corner, their connection is immediate. And dangerous.

When tragedy strikes, Victoria is forced to leave her home and face a decision that will change her life forever.
Loved deeply by readers, the reader follows the epic adventure of Victoria Nash, determined to save her family’s generational peach farm from destruction, as she falls in love, faces devastating tragedy, and finally faces what she must do to survive.

For fans of Where the Crawdad’s Sing and Great Circle, this is a heartwrenching coming-of-age story.
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Readers are loving Go as a River:

‘An incredible read. Emotional heartbreaking, but very ‘real’ Five stars *****
‘Oh, how i loved this book. Going to be Christmas presents for all my family’ Five stars *****
‘After reading non-stop all night, i’m feeling very emotional, still’ Five stars *****
‘From the moment i started reading, i found it very hard to put down‘ Five stars *****

Sunday Times bestseller, April 2023
Richard And Judy Book Club Pick, Spring 2024

‘Mesmerizing’ WOMAN & HOME

‘Beautiful. A testament to the resilience of the human spirit’ DAILY MAIL

‘Soaring and compassionate. Set against the breathtaking beauty of the natural world’ INDEPENDENT

‘Shelley Read’s lyrical voice is a force of nature and when she lends it to a woman leading a hardscrabble life in rural Colorado, the result is tragic, uplifting and completely unforgettable’ BONNIE GARMUS, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY‘

‘A compelling tale of love and a heroine fighting back’ PATRICK GALE
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On a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family’s farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a dishevelled stranger stops to ask her the way. How she chooses to answer will unknowingly alter the course of both their young lives.

So begins the mesmerising story of split-second choices and courageous acts that propel Victoria away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope and her own untapped strength.

Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever.

GO AS A RIVER is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettable characters and a breathtaking natural setting, it is a sweeping story of survival and becoming, of the deepest mysteries of love, truth and fate.
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‘A lush, beautiful, strong book. It took me on such a transformative life journey. I could not put it down’ CLOVER STROUD

‘Completely spellbinding, vivid, and luminous’ JANE GREEN

‘Go As a River delivers so very much: the tenderness and curiosity of young love, the eternal pangs of loss, the brutality of racism, the sustaining power of nature and the miracle of a mother’s love. Suffused with wisdom and compassion, this shattering testimony to life must be savored, treasured, shared’ MEG WAITE CLAYTON, author of The Postmistress of Paris