Recommended Reading: “Once Upon A River” by Diane Setterfield

I mentioned before Christmas that I had just read and enjoyed Once Upon A River. In fact what I actually said was that it was “terrific” but that you would have to “bide a wee to find out why I think so.”

Today is that happy day—and having had a month to pause and reflect, I still think Once Upon A River is terrific. A friend recommended the book to me (there goes that magical word-of-mouth phenomenon again!) but didn’t say a lot more, so I wasn’t quite sure “what sort” of book it was. By...