Adam Nicolson

Enchanting waters

This is a book which is sometimes so private that reading it seems very nearly like an act of invasiveness.

issue 14 May 2011

  • To the River

    Olivia Laing

    Canongate, pp. 283

This is a book which is sometimes so private that reading it seems very nearly like an act of invasiveness. There is nothing salacious or rude in it, but its tone of voice is whispered, intimate, as though the reader were an interloper, a clumsy stumbler into the most secret thoughts of the author.

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