The Forest

764 Pages. July 2001 Edition. Back cover has a one inch open tear at the spine area. Very slightly concave spine. Interior text pages are near flawless. As entertaining as the author's other novels of British History. A sprawling tome that combines fact with fiction and covers 900 years in the history of New Forest, a 100,000-acre 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 wooded enclave with images of treachery and violence, as well as magic and beauty. Tales of love and honor, deceit, violence, inheritance and loss. Contents: The Rufus Stone, The Hunt, Beaulieu, Lymington, The Armada Tree, Alice, Albion Park, Pride of the Forest, and The Forest.