{"product_id":"rivering-hardcover","title":"Rivering - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCherry Coombe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the quiet banks of the Thames in the 1960s, Poppy Jackson spends her childhood \"rivering\" - swimming, boating and wandering the hidden waterways that shape the rhythms of village life. The river is freedom, danger and sanctuary all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she meets Molly, a newcomer from London, the girls form an intense friendship that draws them into a world of boathouses, locks, weirs and long summer afternoons drifting between childhood and adulthood. But beneath the beauty of the river valley lie darker currents: buried grief, institutional cruelty, class divisions, hidden desires and the lingering trauma of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the girls grow older, the people around them carry secrets of their own - mothers unravelling under quiet pressures, men damaged by histories nobody speaks about, and a community shaped as much by what it refuses to remember as by what it preserves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyrical, haunting and deeply rooted in the landscape of the English river valley, \u003cem\u003eRivering\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about memory, belonging, friendship and the stories that survive beneath the surface of ordinary lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50982382993547,"sku":"9781917130677","price":57.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/QpU9-yqeih9781917130677.webp?v=1793292891","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/rivering-hardcover","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}