Judy's Review:

Not all writers pull off a sense of place and period as beautifully as Shelley Read does here. You’re going to love it. Go as a River is a delight from the first page to the last.

‘This the way to the flop?’

‘The way to everything.’

We are in a one-street, one-horse Colorado town. Everything the little place has is on Main Street. It is 1948 and a dishevelled young stranger has just asked a passing young girl (she is 17) where he can find the local ‘flop’ – the flophouse, or cheapest hotel around.

It is the low-key, trivial beginning of a relationship that will utterly change both their lives. Just as this book will completely take over yours as you read it.

Richard's Review:

In young Victoria Nash’s corner of rural Colorado, something of the atmosphere of the 1930s lingers. The second world war is barely over. Victoria is the last female standing in a family of troubled men; she runs the household on the family’s peach farm. One autumn day, she delivers some baskets of late-season peaches and heads off into the nearby town. It is here she encounters Wilson Moon.

Wilson is a young drifter; he has a veiled, mysterious past. This meeting will bring passion, loss, tragedy – and a journey. Victoria doesn’t realise it, but she is about to leave her still backwater and enter a flowing river. Where will it take her? A mesmerising, haunting, beautiful story. Savour it.