'Probably the best novel I'll read this year.It's about work and love and characters who ring true. By the time I was 50 pages in I couldn't put it down.Can't stop thinking about it'Stephen KingFor generations,Rich Gundersen's family has made a living felling giant redwoods on California's rugged coast. It's treacherous work,and though his son,Chub,wants nothing more than to step into his father's boots,Rich longs for a bigger future for him. Colleen just wants a brother or sister for Chub,but she's losing hope.There is so much that she and Rich don't talk about these days - including her suspicions that there is something very wrong at the heart of the forest on which their community is built. When Rich is offered the opportunity to buy a plot of timber which borders Damnation Grove,he leaps at the chance - without telling Colleen.Soon the Gundersens find themselves on opposite sides of a battle that threatens to rip their town apart.Can they find a way to emerge from this together
Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupISBN: 9781472286666Number of pages: 464Weight: 320 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 34 mm
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(An) ambitious,assured debut... a devastating page-turner with a love story at its centreA strong work of climate fiction... rooted in age-old man-versus-nature storytelling. An impressively well-turned story about how environmental damage creeps into our bodies,psyches,and economiesBeautiful,timeless and breathtaking
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