{"product_id":"story-of-the-forest-linda-grant-9780349014081","title":"Story of the Forest","description":"SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023\n'Epic and marvellously entertaining... There's a furious energy to the novel, which constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back'\nFINANCIAL TIMES\n'Magnificent... I want to press a copy on everyone I know'\nNIGELLA LAWSON\n'Epic, magnificent, beautiful... I couldn't put it down'\nPHILIPPA PERRY\n'Jewel-like clarity... exceptional'\nRICHARD COLES\n'Exquisite writing [and] a triumphant, elegant ending' \nMAIL ON SUNDAY\n'An intelligent family saga... ambitious and moving and funny' \nTESSA HADLEY\nIt'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.\nThe 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?\nFrom 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.\nOrwell Prize for Political Fiction Award Ceremony - 22 June 2023","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49482767237408,"sku":"9780349014081","price":8.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780349014081.jpg?v=1785394631","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/story-of-the-forest-linda-grant-9780349014081","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}