Down by the River Philippa Morgan Bursting with imaginative exuberance

Bursting with imaginative exuberance

and by the time Frank finally shows up

Logan yearns for a way to break through the red tape that hinders their progress

bestselling author of THE DINNER

It has a number of differences - not the opening

Down by the River Philippa Morgan Bursting with imaginative exuberanceSet in her native Ireland, Edna O'Brien's newest novel explores the dark and torturous aspects of family ties. As Mary, the young heroine, tries first to conceal and then to escape her father's fateful attention, she finds herself driven into an emotional Styx. She becomes pregnant with her father's child, and as her private and redeemable tragedy is dragged into the public realm, she falls prey to militant factions on all sides.