Rhine Journey | Ann Schlee

Rhine Journey

by Ann Schlee

with a foreword by Lauren Groff

£9.99

Published July 2024
ISBN: 9781914198885
Format: Paperback

Also available as an eBook:
9781914198878

Can it possibly matter that we allow two young people to imagine that they love one another when in two days’ time they will in any event be parted? 

It is the summer of 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is on holiday in Germany with her brother and his wife. On the surface, Charlotte is an unmarried aunt with a sparse, unfulfilled life. But beneath that quiet respectability lie unsuspected depths hidden murmurings. 

On a day trip boating down the Rhine, Charlotte sights a fellow traveller, Edward Newman, who releases the hissing floodwaters of her subconscious. Dark and dangerous, they sweep Charlotte towards the watershed of her life, stretching her imagination to its limit; almost to breaking point.  

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981, Ann Schlee’s evocative, heady novel creates an aura of  tension that is as compelling as it is mysterious, forcing her characters to confront each other as well as themselves over one hot summer abroad.