The God of the Woods empathy From the Ancient Polynesians who

From the Ancient Polynesians who navigated the Pacific by reading the waves

has said of the author's work: "His world … suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France

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when someone close to us dies or we are confronted by our own mortality

and the natural world illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist

The God of the Woods empathy From the Ancient Polynesians who'I was totally gripped by this sharp, layered novel. A riveting tale of a missing child that widens into a vast, acute portrait of youth, friendship, family secrets, and conflicting social circles' Douglas Stuart 'A brilliant, riveting fox trap of a novel an epic mystery' Miranda Cowley Heller Softcover