The Forest A Novel By Edward Rutherfurd

AS ENTERTAINING AS SARUM AND RUTHERFURDS OTHER SWEEPING NOVEL OF BRITISH HISTORY LONDON. The Boston Globe Engaging . . . A sprawling tome that combines fact with fiction and covers 900 years in the history of New Forest a 100 000acre woodland in southern England . . . Rutherfurd sketches the histories of six fictional families ranging from aristocrats to peasants who have lived in the forest for generations. . . . But the real success is in how Rutherfurd paints his picture of the wood