'I COULDN'T TURN THE PAGES FAST ENOUGH' Clare Mackintosh
'BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND UNBEARABLY TENSE' Observer
'UTTER JOY... GLORIOUS DRAMA AND LYRICAL FLAIR' Denise Mina, New York Times
TWO FRIENDS
Wynn and Jack have been best friends since their first day of college, brought together by their shared love of the great outdoors.
THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME
When they decide to take time off university, canoeing down the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate the ultimate wilderness adventure.
No phones. No fellow travellers. No going back.
A HELLISH RIDE
But as a raging wildfire starts to make its way towards them and they stumble across a woman who has been brutally attacked and left for dead, the desperate race for survival becomes a much deadlier game of cat and mouse.
Read MoreUrgent, visceral writing - I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. A beautiful, heartrending exploration of male friendship' - Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author of LET ME LIEUtter joy... A suspenseful tale told with glorious drama and lyrical flair... The real delight is the nature writing. The River is a fiction addition to the New Landscape writing of Robert Macfarlane and Rebecca Solnit, prose so vivid and engaging that a city-dwelling reviewer can feel the clammy cold of a fog over a river or the heat of subterranean tree roots burning underfoot in the aftermath of a fire. - Denise Mina, New York TimesA dreamy, post-apocalyptic love letter to things of beauty, big and small. - Gillian Flynn on THE DOG STARS