The Story of the Forest

Linda Grant

£9.99

From the flour mills of Latvia to Liverpool suburbia to post-war Soho, The Story of the Forest is about myths and memory and about how families adapt in order to survive.

Paperback

Fiction > General

ISBN: 9780349014081

Description

 

It’s 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds.

It sounds like a fairy tale but it’s life.

The adventure leads to flight, emigration and a new land, a new language and the pursuit of idealism or happiness – in Liverpool.

But what of the stories from the old country; how do they shape and form the next generations who have heard the well-worn tales?

From the flour mills of Latvia to Liverpool suburbia to post-war Soho, The Story of the Forest is about myths and memory and about how families adapt in order to survive.

It is a story full of the humour and wisdom we have come to relish from this wonderful writer.

Epic and marvellously entertaining…there’s a furious energy to the novel, which constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back’ – Financial Times

Magnificent…I want to press a copy on everyone I know’ – Nigella Lawson

Epic, magnificent, beautiful…I couldn’t put it down’ – Philippa Perry

Jewel-like clarity…exceptional’ – Richard Coles

Exquisite writing [and] a triumphant, elegant ending’ – Mail on Sunday

An intelligent family saga…ambitious and moving and funny’ – Tessa Hadley

 

 


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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm