Fall River
Published on 21. March 2024
348 pages
978-1-916821-00-2 (ISBN)
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""There is the river, always, inhabited and inhabiting, a susurration through bodies, minds, and landscape in Miller's gorgeous prose."" Elaine Canning
One young woman disappears as another returns. Alice has turned to the river looking to drown the voices in her head. Khadija has come home to uncover the terrible history hidden beneath its surface. The London train screeches by while the rest of the town is still asleep along the banks of the Tamar. They'll wake up that morning to find that everything, and nothing, has changed. Sooner or later, the river pulls them all. Sooner or later, someone falls...
A story of friendship and love, Miller crafts an unfolding psychological mystery, blending lyrical storytelling with a cast of strong female characters.
""A masterful and devastating exploration of the ties binding a small town together.""Carole Hailey
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Meredith Miller was born and raised on Long Island, New York. Before moving to the UK in 1997, she lived on the beach in Oregon for a little while, and in New Orleans for a longer while. She has published two previous novels, Little Wrecks (2017) and How We Learned to Lie (2018). She lives in mid-Wales in a tiny house with a chapel attached. A Welsh learner, Meredith is currently restoring the chapel as a literary and cultural space for the Welsh language. Fall River is her first novel with Honno Press.
'Lyrical, character-driven fiction with a gritty edge.'
Sarah Hunter, Booklist.
'Vivid, haunting writing full of prose gems'
Publisher's Weekly.
