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Part travelogue, part memoir, this deeply moving story of self-discovery - told through journeys on foot along the glittering rivers of Britain - is nature writing at its finest and destined to be a classic of memoir

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016
LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015
TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015

Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the beauty of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine and her nine-year-old daughter Evie decide to follow a river from the sea to its source. But a chance circumstance forces Katharine to the door of the woman who gave her up all those years ago.
Combining travelogue, memoir, exquisite nature writing, fragments of poetry and tales from Celtic mythology, The Fish Ladder is a captivating and life-affirming story about motherhood, marriage, family, and self-discovery, illuminated by the extraordinary majesty of the natural world.

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Beautiful and brave ... A modern Greek myth James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd´s Life

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Katharine Norbury trained as a film editor with the BBC and has worked extensively in film and television drama. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA programme at UEA. The Fish Ladder is her first book. It was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and was a Telegraph Best Book of the Year 2015. Katharine was chosen as the Observer´s Rising Star in non-fiction for 2015. She lives in London with her family.
@kjnorbury

Katharine Norbury trained as a film editor with the BBC and has worked extensively in film and television drama. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA programme at UEA. The Fish Ladder is her first book. It was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and was a Telegraph Best Book of the Year 2015. Katharine was chosen as the Observer´s Rising Star in non-fiction for 2015. She lives in London with her family.

@kjnorbury

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