All rivers run free / Natasha Carthew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carthew, Natasha, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abused women--Fiction.

Abused women.

Abusive men--Fiction.

Abusive men.

Unmarried couples--Fiction.

Unmarried couples.

Cornwall (England : County)--Fiction.

Cornwall (England : County).

Caravans.

Families.

Foundlings.

Liberty.

Motherhood.

Mothers and daughters.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

323 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Riverrun, 2018.

Summary:

"A woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life. Brittle but not yet broken, Ia Pendilly ekes out a fierce life in a caravan on the coast of Cornwall. In years of living with Bran - her embattled, battering cousin and common law husband - she's never yet had her own baby. So when she discovers the waif washed up on the shore, Ia takes the risk and rescues her. And the girl, in turn, will rescue something in Ia - bringing back a memory she's lost, giving her the strength to escape, and leading her on a journey downriver. It will take her into the fringes of a society she's shunned, collapsed around its own isolation. It will take her through a valley ravaged by floods, into a world not too far from reckoning. It will take her in search of her sister, and the dark remembrance of their parting. It will take her, break her, remake her, in the shapes of freedom. Natasha Carthew is a startling new voice from beyond the limits of common urban experience. She tells a tale of marginalisation and motherhood in prose that crashes like waves on rocks; rough, breathless and beautiful."--Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

9781786488626

1786488620

9781786488633

1786488639

OCLC:

986939103