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The Flow
- Rivers, Water and Wildness
- Narrated by: Amy-Jane Beer
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
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Summary
On New Year’s Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer’s beloved friend Kate set out with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and unmoored. Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a new phase of exploration.
The Flow is an audiobook about water, and, like water, it meanders, cascades and percolates through many lives, landscapes and stories. From West Country torrents to Levels and Fens, rocky Welsh canyons, the salmon highways of Scotland and the chalk rivers of the Yorkshire Wolds, Amy-Jane follows springs, streams and rivers to explore tributary themes of wildness and wonder, loss and healing, mythology and history, cyclicity and transformation.
Threading together places and voices from across Britain, The Flow is a profound, immersive exploration of our personal and ecological place in nature.
Critic reviews
"The perfect commingling of deep research with sparkling observation and quiet eddies of feeling...I loved it." (Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time)
"Honest, raw and moving, Amy's prose is as captivating as the rivers she describes. I thought I knew what rivers were, but this stunning book is a powerful reminder of their infinity, their mystery, and their bewildering complexity." (Sophie Pavelle, author of Forget Me Not)
"The Flow is passionately alive - a work of tremendous range and scope by one of our finest writers about the living world." (Caspar Henderson, author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings)
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- Graham
- 01-04-24
A water love story
Beautifully read - A mix between myth, natural history & love story of the aquatic world our rivers create.
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- veyza
- 18-08-23
Immersive
An immersive exploration of rivers and their place in our literature, history and natural history - this book deserves a place alongside the best of Macfarlane, Deakin and Shepherd among the best of British nature writing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-09-23
Quality
Fresh strong ideas and beautiful writing. I learned things and felt things. A big recommendation.
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- William Thomas/Michaela Evans
- 12-11-23
Fantastic account of a relationship with nature
Readers of Deakin and MacFarlane will not be disappointed. Expertly weaving nature, culture, history and personal stories. Well delivered in the author's own voice. Loved it.
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- Lizzy h
- 03-12-23
Connection to water
I really enjoyed the adventures and the author's knowledge of their flora and fauna. Eyeopening, especially with the present issues of river pollution.
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