The Times instant Top Ten bestsellerNamed a book to look out for in 2024 by the Sunday Times, Guardian and BBCA small hardback edition featuring an afterword by the authorFrom the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting Christmas short storyA church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. Theyre the same thing really.Nineteenyearold 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 GuardianA miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling Madeline Miller With exquisite illustrations by Victoria Sawdon

Binding: Hardback;64 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc; Classification: FA; Weight: 306 g; Dimensions: 205 x 135 x 8

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