Once Upon a River

“Setterfield’s prose feels lifted from another era, a gothic lyricism resembling old classics like Jane Eyre. ” — Entertainment Weekly From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Tale comes a “swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful” (Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe ) novel about how we explain the world to ourselves, ourselves to others, and the meaning of our lives in a universe that remains impenetrably mysterious. On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancien