What I’ve learnt about becoming is that it takes a long time.

Nestled in the foothills of the Elk mountains and surrounded by sprawling forests, wandering bears and porcupine, the Gunnison river rushes by the tiny town of Iola.

For seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash, the day promises to be as ordinary as the porridge and fried eggs she serves her family for breakfast.

But just as a single rainstorm can erode the banks and change the course of a river, so can a chance encounter in a young woman’s life upturn her world and erase everything she was before.

The mysterious drifter who crosses Victoria’s path that afternoon will set in motion an unstoppable chain of events. Soon, she will be forced to run for the forests, leaving her life - and her most precious possession - behind.

In this soaring, singing, compassionate novel, a breathtaking picture of our natural world - its trees and mountains and light - emerges. But it is the astonishing tale of female reslience and becoming that gives Go as a River its strength, its soul, and its possibility.