Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. Her work appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Frieze and New York Times. She's a Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow and was 2014 Eccles Writer in Residence at the British Library. To the River was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Her second book, The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize, and The Lonely City has been shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize. She lives in Cambridge.
A beautifully written, elegant and subtle debut
* * Financial Times * *
A gentle, wise and riddling book
*ROBERT MACFARLANE*
Magical . . . By turns lyrical, melancholic and exultant, To the
River just makes you want to follow Olivia Laing all the way to the
sea
* * Daily Telegraph * *
A beautifully written meditation on landscape
* * The Sunday Times * *
Wonderfully allusive . . . The book's subject and structure fuse
pleasingly, weaving and meandering, pooling into biographical,
mythical or historical backwaters
* * Observer * *
Without wanting to sound gushing, her writing at its sublime best
reminds me of Richard Mabey's nature prose and the poetry of Alice
Oswald . . . Laing seems to lack a layer of skin, rendering her
susceptible to the smallest vibrations of the natural world as well
as to the frailties of the human psyche
* * The Times * *
Has a Sebaldian edge to it that lifts it out of memoir and
biography and into something far more tantalizing and
suggestive
* * Guardian * *
This hugely accomplished first book draws on local lore and
history, a vast range of research and some soaring lyrical
writing
* * Sunday Times * *
Olivia Laing joins the best nature writers . . . Laing is a
brilliant wordsmith and this is a beautifully accomplished book
* * Independent * *
Brave, distinctive, and deeply intelligent . . . The book has an
intense, humming, cumulative effect
* * Literary Review * *
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