Publication Date: 11/05/2023 ISBN: 9780349014104 Category:

The Story of the Forest

Linda Grant

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Date: 11/05/2023 ISBN: 9780349014104 Category:
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 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

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.

Publisher Review

What an amazing novel.....an epic, fascinating and moving story. The sections set in Liverpool really spoke to me having grown up there, but I loved the London chapters. Vivid storytelling with complex and colourful characters. I thought it was spectacular. * David Morrissey * Epic, magnificent, beautiful. A perfect work of art and craft and such a good story... I felt I was living it. I couldn't put it down. * Philippa Perry * I'm not sure it could ever be possible to do justice to this magnificent novel in a few words: the flawless writing, wonderfully flawed characters, its epic sweep combined with a warm immediacy, indeed every page of it just bowled me over completely. I'm in awe, I'm charmed, and I want to press a copy on everyone I know. * Nigella Lawson * A major achievement... as fine as anything Linda Grant has written... maybe excelling them all * Joan Bakewell * Such an intelligent family saga, ambitious and moving and funny too... I loved it * Tessa Hadley * Epic and marvellously entertaining... Grant is a brilliant chronicler of the British-Jewish diaspora, as well as being a close observer of cities... The Story of the Forest hums with the boisterousness of family and community life... There's a furious energy to the novel, which constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back -- Catherine Taylor * Financial Times *

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