The Wood at Midwinter
- Author Susanna Clarke
- Narrator Susanna Clarke
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Run Time 35 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Speculative fiction.
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What to expect
**Named a book to look out for in 2024 by the Sunday Times, Guardian and BBC**
‘A church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. They’re the same thing really.’
Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scott is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees – and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods.
One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig, Merowdis encounters a blackbird and a fox. As darkness falls, a strange figure enters in their midst – and the path of her life is changed forever.
'Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke has made the very notion of genre seem quaint' Guardian
'A miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling' Madeline Miller
Critics Review
Praise for Susanna Clarke: ‘Clarke creates a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human
What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being
A miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling
Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke made the very notion of genre seem quaint
One of the greatest and most interesting writers of fantasy in the past hundred years or more
A treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered
Purely joyful reading
Utterly compelling – bewildering, intense, moving, shocking, combining a haunting fantasy with sharp insight
As beloved fantasy writer Clarke’s atmospheric and gently funny fable about the holiness of nature, so gracefully illustrated by Victoria Sawdon, unfurls, Merowdis experiences a transformative encounter.
This short story from the Women’s Prize winner (Piranesi) revolves around 19-year-old Merowdis, who can talk to trees and animals, and whose life changes when she steps into the woods one day
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