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The Forest - Edward Rutherfurd, Lynn Redgrave
The Forest
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Five CDs, 5 hoursEdward Rutherfurd's new audiobook covers four centuries of British history, with the New Forest as background, culminating in a five-family saga set in the days of Jane Austen.  Few places in England are more resonant, more mysterious yet more friendly than the huge forest that... show more
Five CDs, 5 hoursEdward Rutherfurd's new audiobook covers four centuries of British history, with the New Forest as background, culminating in a five-family saga set in the days of Jane Austen.  Few places in England are more resonant, more mysterious yet more friendly than the huge forest that lies by England's southern coast, that provided hunting for England's Saxon and Norman kings, and whose ancient oaks were used to build Nelson's navy.  Jane Austen and her family lived just twenty-five miles north-east of the forest.  The river Avon runs down the forest's western edge.  On its eastern side is the ancient Saxon capital of Winchester, the great port of Southampton from which the Titanic set out, and the QE2 sails to this day, and beyond that Portsmouth, home of the British Navy.It is against this backdrop that Rutherfurd tells a tale of woodsmen, monks, sailors, craftswomen and families.  The largest family in the novel is modeled loosely upon the extended family of Jane Austen, together with certain other known families from the New Forest area.  And so, we have the magical formula of previous Rutherfurd novels with the same sense of the passing of centuries but a shorter time period allowing for more character development and drama, culminating in the Austen period, a favorite in British history, just at the time when the New Forest was at its most bustling.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN: 9780375410079 (0375410074)
Publisher: Random House Audio
Edition language: English
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
3.0 The Forest
The Forest - Rutherfurdhist ficbr eng> new forestmad,evil (mediaeval)> Rufus, son of William the Conqueror, to the present dayebook> nutty nuut> on the road againspring 2013tbr busting 2013epic3* The Forest4* The Princes of Ireland4* The Rebels of Ireland
knittingnut
knittingnut rated it
5.0 The Forest
brilliant
denisebetteridge
denisebetteridge rated it
There is just way too much description about everything to get to the story in this book. I struggled every bit of the way to get a third of the book read. When the writing came to a natural breaking point, I just couldn't go on. It is purely the writing style of the author as I had the same problem...
Clif's Book World
Clif's Book World rated it
2.0 The Forest
This novel is about a region in southern England known as New Forest and covers a 900 year span of time. The book is a series of short stories about people living in this part of England with the stories taking place at intervals about 200 years apart. The first story takes place in the year 1100 ...
Between The Bookends
Between The Bookends rated it
5.0 The Forest
Fabulous!!
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