The River: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)

The story of two sisters and their young brother growing up in a riverside town in India ('but it might as easily have been a river in America, in Europe, in England, France, New Zealand or Timbuctoo'), Rumer Godden's novel echoes her own fondly remembered childhood in Bengal - apart from the tragedy that befalls these fictional siblings. The book, first published in 1946, includes a preface by the author.