The Flow is a book about water, and, like water, it meanders, cascades and percolates through many lives, landscapes and stories. Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a new phase of exploration.

Kate never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and unmoored. On New Year's Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer's beloved friend Kate set out with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. 'A book of wit, wonder and of wisdom.' NICK ACHESONĪ visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer's love of rivers setting her on a journey of natural, cultural and emotional discovery. 'An extraordinary book by an extraordinary author.' CHRIS JONES 'Lyrical, wholehearted and wise.' LEE SCHOFIELD Threading together places and voices from across Britain, The Flow is a profound, immersive exploration of our personal and ecological place in nature.'A true masterpiece.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT From West Country torrents to Levels and Fens, rocky Welsh canyons, the salmon highways of Scotland and the chalk rivers of the Yorkshire Wolds, Amy-Jane follows springs, streams and rivers to explore tributary themes of wildness and wonder, loss and healing, mythology and history, cyclicity and transformation.

A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer's love of rivers setting her on a journey of natural, cultural and emotional discovery.

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