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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’FarrellOVER FOUR CENTURIES,’This is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . .
The only constants are the land and Mason’s genius’ Washington PostA 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’ GuardianIS 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 TimesIT 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
