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? A SPELLBINDING MASTERPIECE. READ IT ONCE, REMEMBER IT FOREVER. ?
‘North Woods is a monumental achievement of polyphony and humanity. Relating the narrative of an entire country via a single plot of land, it sweeps the reader through hundreds of years and an array of protagonists with a deft, heartbreaking, idiosyncratic zeal’ Maggie O’Farrell
OVER FOUR CENTURIES,
‘This is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . The only constants are the land and Mason’s genius’ Washington Post
A SINGLE HOUSE DEEP IN THE WOODS OF NEW ENGLAND
‘Dazzling . . . weaves a Cloud Atlas-style narrative of humanity under pressure and nature under threat . . . Brave and original . . . intimate and epic, playful and serious’ Guardian
IS HOME TO RUNAWAYS AND VISIONARIES, INSEPARABLE TWINS, A LOVELORN PAINTER, A DESPERATE MOTHER AND A RUTHLESS CON-MAN.
‘It seems almost a magic trick, the way in which Mason knits his lives into a single tale’ Sunday Times
IT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD.
‘North Woods has been heaped with praise and hype, and deservedly so. This is a book that treats life as a miracle and demands the proper awe from its readers’ The Times