Into the Forest
by:
Jean Hegland (author)
A feminist/ecological/survival story. Recently orphaned and completely isolated, teenagers Nell and Eva live alone in the forest, struggling for normality in a post-holocaust world in which electricity is a thing of the past and the outside world a distant memory.
A feminist/ecological/survival story. Recently orphaned and completely isolated, teenagers Nell and Eva live alone in the forest, struggling for normality in a post-holocaust world in which electricity is a thing of the past and the outside world a distant memory.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099256724 (009925672X)
Publish date: February 5th 1998
Publisher: Trafalgar Square
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Book Club,
Survival,
Adult,
Speculative Fiction,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
I think probably my favourite part of this book is its atmosphere. For me, some books have a sort of mental smell, which I associate with the book in my mind. Heinlein's books often smell like my father's garage, all metal and grease. The atmosphere in Into the Forest is so alive it's breathtaking. ...
Starts out well, improves over the first half, then tails off before taking a sharp left at the very end that made me very nearly knock it all the way down to a 2 star read. Plot: Two teenagers try to manage life alone, and then not so alone, in a remote house in the woods after the slow disintegr...
This is a beautifully written book about two teenaged sisters who are left to fend for themselves after surviving the death of both parents. The older sister Nell paints a lovely portrait of a family who live by their own rules, on a large plot of land 30 miles from the nearest town. The girls hav...
yeaa... I audibly said "WHAT THE..!!" when I got to the weird part between the sisters a number of reviewers mentioned. It was most definitely weird but then I remembered how I had read similarly icky material in V.C. Andrews books as a teen. As an adult, I still think the behavior was definitely ta...
This is the sort of book I *ought* to like - female protagonists, interesting premise (two sisters struggle for survival after the civilised world collapses), good writing......but. meh, basically.I didn't warm to the sisters (fatal flaw - if you don't like the characters, you won't want to read the...
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