
The Wood at Midwinter : The Times Top Ten bestseller
by Susanna Clarke
Title:
The Wood at Midwinter : The Times Top Ten bestseller
Author:
Susanna Clarke
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
64 pages
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
ISBN-13:
9781526675217
EAN:
9781526675217
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
306
Dimensions (mm):
205 x 135 x 8
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
**The Times instant Top Ten bestseller****Named a book to look out for in 2024 by the Sunday Times, Guardian and BBC****A small hardback edition featuring an afterword by the author**From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting Christmas short story_________________________________'A church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. They're the same thing really.'Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scott is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees - and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods.One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig, Merowdis encounters a blackbird and a fox. As darkness falls, a strange figure enters in their midst - and the path of her life is changed forever.'Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke has made the very notion of genre seem quaint' Guardian'A miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling' Madeline Miller **With exquisite illustrations by Victoria Sawdon**
















