This book was kindly donated for the Bookcrossing Convention Mainz 2019, by the ladies from the English Book Swap Zurich https://www.facebook.com/EnglishBookSwapZH/

If you aren't familiar with Bookcrossing, take a few minutes to check out this very cool site. Bookcrossers LOVE books, and more than anything, they love to read books and then set them free for other people to find and enjoy. I would love it if you would leave a journal entry -- you can say where you found the book or how you liked it when you read it.

Picked up right at the end of the convention in Mainz to release elsewhere. This is my review for another copy:

The excerpts from reviews on the back cover of books are often gushing and raise your expectations too much. Other books are so hyped, that if you read it long after it was published, you may have heard so many friends enthusing about it, that when you finally get to it, you can only be disappointed. Then there are books like this one. I had never heard of this book nor the author, never read any reviews, and had been putting off reading it for a few months, in spite of the rave reviews from respected sources on the back cover, because I didn’t want to be let down. All I can say is, this book exceeded my expectations. It is well-written, the characters are well-rounded and sympathetic, and the story is interesting and believable, spanning the years from just before America joined WWI to the Depression, and set in rural Wisconsin. If you don’t enjoy books which switch between the perspectives of different characters, or backwards and forward in time, you will not enjoy this book. These devices are both used to great effect in ‘Drowning Ruth’ to build up the mystery surrounding the death of Ruth’s mother Mattie, and the involvement of her sister Amanda. It leads you to wonder throughout the book about who was responsible, whether she really drowned, who was the mysterious baby who Ruth claimed to have heard on the night of her mother’s death. Throughout the book, new twists and turns are hinted at and revealed, and a new and dangerous development arises as Ruth grows older and makes friends with the popular Imogene. There are powerful emotions, family loyalties, secrets, crises of conscience and moral dilemmas galore. The only thing which jarred slightly was that Mattie’s widowed husband Carl, despite a major misunderstanding of what really happened, decides that he can reconcile himself with what he believes to be the truth and leaves to work elsewhere. I’m not sure his presence would have made much difference, but it did seem odd. This was only a minor quibble, however. This was one of those books which makes you want to read more by the author. Superb.

This book has been released as part of the following BookCrossing challenges:
- The Ultimate Challenge - read and release books, with extra points for a monthly theme
- Reduce Mount TBR (To Be Read) - read and release books on the TBR list since before the end of the previous year. My reading goal is 36 books.

I couldn't resist this cover. A 1001-book is a true bonus... I've never heard of this book, didn't know it was on the list. Mtbr is hughe, but I will get around to it eventually :)

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