There Are Rivers in the Sky

This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all of them connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, the ancient city of Mesopotamia, fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, lie hidden in the sand. In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black river Thames. Arthur’s only chance of escaping poverty is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a printing press, Arthur’s world opens up far beyond the slums, with one book sending him across the seas: Nineveh and Its Remains. In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl living by the River Tigris, waits to be baptised with water brought from the holy site of Lalish in Iraq. The ceremony is interrupted, and soon Narin and her grandmother must journey across war-torn lands in the hope of reaching the sacred valley of their people. In 2018 London, Zaleekhah, a broken-hearted hydrologist, moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage. Zaleekhah foresees a life drained of love and meaning – until an unexpected connection to her homeland changes everything.

Format: Kindle Edition, Audiobook, & Hardcover

Hardcover: 496 Pages

Language: English