A Room in the Forest (Paperback)

Heather Ramsay

ISBN 10: 1773861670 / ISBN 13: 9781773861678

Published by Caitlin Press, 2025

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Paperback. Nineteen-year-old Lily knows she doesn't belong at a dead-end job in her father's small-town Alberta furniture store, not when she's been offered a job in the ancient forests of Haida Gwaii. But her search for a sense of place becomes more complicated when a band of tree planters she meets on the road question her assumptions about whose land she is moving towards. Once at the logging camp, the rugged work and her rough co-workers make her even more uncertain about where she fits in. While measuring trees, Lily sees a mysterious figure who disappeared into the forest years before. Is he a man or a myth? Everyone has a different opinion. As she meets more locals and learns about the community, Lily discovers surprising secrets about her estranged mother's time in the area-- and that her connection to this place may not be what she thought. Do the rumours Lily keeps hearing about the mysterious hermit have anything to do with her? As more and more questions rise to the surface, Lily plunges deeper into the forest to find out. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Room in the Forest (Paperback)
• Publisher: Caitlin Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1773861670
• ISBN 13: 9781773861678
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Nineteen-year-old Lily knows she doesn’ t belong at a dead-end job in her father’ s small-town Alberta furniture store, not when she’ s been offered a job in the ancient forests of Haida Gwaii. But her search for a sense of place becomes more complicated when a band of tree planters she meets on the road question her assumptions about whose land she is moving towards. Once at the logging camp, the rugged work and her rough co-workers make her even more uncertain about where she fits in. While measuring trees, Lily sees a mysterious figure who disappeared into the forest years before. Is he a man or a myth? Everyone has a different opinion. As she meets more locals and learns about the community, Lily discovers surprising secrets about her estranged mother’ s time in the area— and that her connection to this place may not be what she thought. Do the rumours Lily keeps hearing about the mysterious hermit have anything to do with her? As more and more questions rise to the surface, Lily plunges deeper into the forest to find out.

About the Author

Heather Ramsay lives and writes in unceded Ts'elxwé yeqw territory (Chilliwack, BC) and is heavily influenced by place: the ten years she lived on Haida Gwaii; the seven years she lived in Wet’ suwet’ en territory; her childhood in Treaty 7 - Tsuut'ina and Blackfoot Territory (Calgary, Alberta). She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and has been published in The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Numero Cinq, Canadian Geographic and more. She has also co-written two books for the Haida Gwaii Museum. Ramsay lives in Chilliwack, BC.