Swift River by Essie Chambers #literature alongside tips for nightlife and

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Swift River by Essie Chambers #literature alongside tips for nightlife and'I love a novel this much maybe just once or twice a year.' Curtis Sittenfeld, author of RODHAM and ROMANTIC COMEDY 'Told with warmth and humor by a memorable, irrepressible heroine.' Rumaan Alam, author of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND What if the price of moving forward is losing the only family you've ever known? Summer, 1987. On the sweltering streets of the dying New England mill town of Swift River, sixteen year old Diamond Newbury is desperately