Product Description
The Story of the Forest
Author: Linda Grant
Format: Paperback
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023
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.
Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Award Ceremony – 22 June 2023
‘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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