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After River - Donna Milner

Description: ISBN 1847245714 / Genre: Fiction / Author: Donna Milner / Mass Market Paperback / 352 Pages / Book is published 2008-08-21 by Quercus ... more

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Newest Review: ... have the same level of acceptance around Atwood that they have. But River's presence is one of the few things that could ... more

... cause a divide in the Ward family and his actions cause them to be shut out by the town and by each other. The story is mostly told from Natalie's point of view as, one at a time, she reveals the secrets she's been keeping for so long and which have torn her and her family apart. We also get sections from her mother, Nettie, as she drifts in and out of morphine induced memories at the edge of death. It is the impending death of the woman who did so much to hold the family together that brings Natalie back to Atwood. ...more

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After River - Donna Milner: Don't Hold Back the River (889 words)
by - written on 05/12/08 (Very useful, 91 readings)
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One of the best books I've ever read was Tawni O'Dell's "Back Roads", a story so vividly written that for a while I believed I knew what it felt to be a young boy living in small town America. For years, I've been looking for something to match that feeling and no-one, even O'Dell herself, has managed it. But now, I have found the equal to that novel and it is Donna Milner's "After River" Natalie Ward is fifteen and lives with her family just over the Canadian side of the border with America in the small town of Atwood. The family, which consists of Natalie's parents and her three brothers, run their own dairy farm. Their house is ... Read the complete review

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