Olivia Laing is the author of five acclaimed works of nonfiction and the recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction. Her first novel, Crudo, won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize.
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Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through ... SEE MORE