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The Story of the Forest: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2023

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By (author): Linda Grant

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023

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'An intelligent family saga... ambitious and moving and funny'
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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.
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Product Details
  • Weight: 41g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jun 2024
  • Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780349014081

About Linda Grant

Linda Grant is author of four non-fiction books and eight novels. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature she won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006 and holds honorary doctorates from the University of York and Liverpool John Moores University. The Clothes on Their Backs was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and went on to win the South Bank Show Award; The Dark Circle was shortlisted for the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction; A Stranger City won the 2000 Wingate Literary Prize. Linda Grant lives in London.

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