Harriet’s older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the comforting rhythm of her Indian childhood – the sounds of the jute factory, the colourful festivals and the eternal ebb and flow of the river on its journey to the Bay of Bengal – is about to be shattered by a tragic event. Intense, vivid and with a dark undertow, The River is an arresting portrait of three siblings on the cusp of adulthood.

‘The River will make you laugh, make you cry and, in its way, change you for ever’

Julie Myerson

Available in a Virago Modern Classics limited hardback edition.