{"product_id":"the-story-of-the-forest","title":"The Story of the Forest","description":"SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023  'Epic and marvellously entertaining... There's a furious energy to the novel, which constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back' FINANCIAL TIMES  'Magnificent... I want to press a copy on everyone I know' NIGELLA LAWSON  'Epic, magnificent, beautiful... I couldn't put it down'  PHILIPPA PERRY  'Jewel-like clarity... exceptional' RICHARD COLES  'Exquisite writing [and] a triumphant, elegant ending'  MAIL ON SUNDAY  'An intelligent family saga... ambitious and moving and funny'  TESSA HADLEY  It's 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds. It sounds like a fairy tale but it's life.  The adventure leads to flight, emigration and a new land, a new language and the pursuit of idealism or happiness - in Liverpool. But what of the stories from the old country; how do they shape and form the next generations who have heard the well-worn tales?  From the flour mills of Latvia to Liverpool suburbia to post-war Soho, The Story of the Forest is about myths and memory and about how families adapt in order to survive. It is a story full of the humour and wisdom we have come to relish from this wonderful writer.","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40741768986709,"sku":"9780349014104N","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/422542cf-6366-42e4-914a-5e75eb3ce64b.jpg?v=1702673851","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-story-of-the-forest","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}