The Story of the Forest: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2023

Linda Grant

It's 1913 and a young reckless girl 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 not the supernatural - the adventure leads to flight, emigration, and the story of a migrant family adapting...