A boy and a girl in a rowboat drift away from a riverbank in the Devon, England, village of Cameldip in 1958. They intend to go on a short adventure, but soon find themselves adrift, and they drown when the boat founders. For the next 30 years, their parents, Isabel and Robert MacKinnon, live in a grief-stricken purgatory. Read my review of Tricia Wastvedt’s first novel, The River, here.
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