Best book I have read in years. Beautifully written, highly captivating. Maybe because I have a certain fondness for the Thames growing up just a little down river from where this story is set and spending years living on a narrow boat in Oxford, or maybe because this is a very well told story. I had to share it with the world and hope it travels far and wide and is picked up by all that love the river, any river, as they are special and magical places.