The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd

The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd

AS ENTERTAINING AS SARUM AND RUTHERFURD'S OTHER SWEPING NOVEL OF BRITISH HISTORY, LONDON.
-The Boston Globe
Engaging . . . 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.
-The New York Post
THE FOREST IS MICHENER TOLD WITH AN ENGLISH ACENT.
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TALES OF LOVE AND HONOR, DECEIT AND VIOLENCE, INHERITANCE AND LOS.
-San Jose Mercury News

From the Paperback edition.

Edward Rutherfurd was born in Salisbury, England, and was educated in Wiltshire and at Cambridge. He has since lived on both sides of the Atlantic, in Dublin and New York, but he returned to his roots to write his first novel, the best-selling Sarum, a history of Salisbury. This was followed by the best-selling Russka, a sweeping history of Russia from the cossack horsemen to the Bolshevik revolution.

Until the 1980s, Edward Rutherfurd pursued a business career -- he attended Stanford Business School, worked for W.H. Smith, and was employed by Tory Party Central Office. As a child, he had been fascinated by the novels of C.S. Forester, Henty, and the historical romances of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His grandmother, Evelyn Winch, was a well-known romantic novelist of the 1930s. Rutherfurd was also influenced by the novels of James Michener, such as Covenant and Texas, and saw that no one had attempted a similar approach in the United Kingdom.

Rutherfurd gave up his secure day job and spent two years researching and writing Sarum. When it was half-finished, and funds were running low, he realized he needed to find an agent. He approached agent Gill Coleridge with a few chapters and a synopsis. Within a month, Century bought the book in England, and the novel was auctioned in the United States. Ten years later, Sarum is still selling all over the world.

Edward Rutherfurd currently lives outside Dublin, Ireland.

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ISBN 13	9780345479365
ISBN 10	034547936X
Title	The Forest
Author	Edward Rutherfurd
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2005-03-01
Number of pages	784
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