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The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Opening with the assassination of King William II in 1099, the book covers nearly a millennium's worth of history. But The Forest is surely the definitive chronicle, with all the local stories, legends, and apocrypha woven into an irresistible narrative-think of Thomas Hardy's power and drama filtered through a very modern sensibility. Other writers have tackled the area before. This time the location is that bosky patch of English real estate known as the New Forest. ![]() The Forest is the most ambitious example yet of Rutherfurd's art. With such novels as Sarum and Russka, Edward Rutherfurd has laid claim to James Michener's longtime turf: the immensely researched, meticulously detailed epic of place, in which the characters tend to play second fiddle to the setting. ![]()
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