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Book Review of The Forest

The Forest
The Forest
Author: Edward Rutherfurd
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2


In the style of James Michener, Edward Rutherford takes a location and washes the history with broad strokes of a fine painter's brush. In The Forest, he covers 900 hears in the history of a woodland in Southern England, telling its history through six fictional families from all walks of life.