The River Wife is now published in this beautifully designed new edition. The River Wife is the story of a woman who is a fish by night and a woman by day, but when love comes to the river, everything changes. This is the second of my backlist to be published afresh by Allen & Unwin and featuring the cyan0type brilliance of British artist Will Creech. (White Heart – my first novel – will re published again in June.)
The River Wife was originally published in 2009 – my third novel. The Age said about it – ‘A celebration of the beauty of nature and the enduring power of story.’ Readings said ‘The River Wife holds stories within stories and they are all woven together with a compassionate and unique hand.’ The Canberra Times said ‘A cool and luscious fable of love …elegiac and profound.’ It’s that rare thing in Australian literature – magical realism.
It won the International Varuna Eleanor Dark Fellowship as an unfinished manuscript which took me on a wonderful writing adventure to Scotland for a month back in 2007 as part of the UNESCO Edinburgh City of Literature program. The River Wife has accumulated a particularly passionate group of readers over the years – and it’s always very special to meet them.
If you haven’t yet read this one, I invite you to immerse yourself in a story of love, water and belonging.
