Published in 2023
9 hours and 21 minutes
Linda Grant is an accomplished British novelist, whose books have won the Women’s Prize and been shortlisted for the Booker, and is known for writing about the Jewish experience. She lives in London.
What is this book about?
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023
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.
