
There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (Penguin, 2025)
Fiction
There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (ISBN: 9780241435014, hardback, tells the story of three lives: a Victorian printing apprentice escaping poverty, a Yazidi girl awaiting her baptism in 2014, and a broken-hearted hydrologist living on a houseboat in London in 2018. They are connected across time, through an ancient poem and the culturally infused power of water.