Once Upon a River

A Novel

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Diane Setterfield: Once Upon a River (Hardcover, 2018, Atria/Emily Bestler Books)

Hardcover, 465 pages

English language

Published Dec. 4, 2018 by Atria/Emily Bestler Books.

ISBN:
978-1-5011-9023-0
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When the seemingly dead body of a child reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on the Thames, three families try to claim her.

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I listened to the audiobook narrated by Juliet Stevenson. If you like a long tale with stories folded into stories, you will be alternately lulled and excited by this one. The writing is solid, the characters (many!) are well-differentiated, and overall it's very well crafted. The setting is early 20th sometime, but mostly it's rather timeless.

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  • Fiction, mystery & detective, historical
  • Fiction, fantasy, historical