# The Given World

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- Book: [The Given World](https://www.bookquiver.com/melissa-harrison/the-given-world) ([The Given World.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/melissa-harrison/the-given-world.md))
- Authors: [Melissa Harrison](https://www.bookquiver.com/melissa-harrison)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-0495-461-4
- Published: 2026-05-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

April brings spring surging with it, giving rise, among many in the village, to a comforting illusion that all is somehow still right with the world, and that nothing will ever change. In the ancient Welm Valley, something is shifting: the river is behaving oddly, while the arrival of spring, with its familiar rhythms, is shadowed by an undercurrent of unease. A woman falls while out walking and hopes to be found before nightfall; a doctor realises, too late, that he has long underestimated his wife; across the village, people are plagued by the same vast and unsettling dream. And alone in a converted priory, overlooking watermeadows unchanged for centuries, Clare Grey receives news which will force her to reconsider her family’s past and the fresh weight of her solitary existence.