The Willows and Beyond
Contributors: Patrick Benson (Illustrator)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1996
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780002253109
First sentence: It was late September, and after a week of storms and rain, which had caused the River to rise, and the once-glorious vegetation along the River Bank to grow old and bedraggled, the sun started to show itself again.