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Book Synopsis*''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 King*
For 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 thei
Trade Review
[An] ambitious, assured debut... a devastating page-turner with a love story at its centre * LitHub *
A 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 economies * Kirkus (starred review) *
Beautiful, timeless and breathtaking * Nickolas Butler *
