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.