‘Powerfully realised … fine novel’ DAILY MAIL ‘Dark, brutal, moving, powerful’ Jane Harris ‘A kind of arboreal love song … an absorbing depiction of the harshness of pioneer life and the impossibility of escaping familial ties’ MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘A wonderful book rich, evocative, original. ‘A densely packed tale of fruit, roots, family and hardship’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘A rollicking yarn of 19-century America’ THE TIMES ‘Chevalier has carved out a middle-point between writing literary fiction and its page-turning, commercial counterpart and this book will serve both those audiences’ INDEPENDENT ‘Chevalier’s prose is by turns muscular, raw and sumptuous… a delight’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY But even across a continent, he can feel the pull of family loyalties… One particularly vicious fight sends Robert out alone across America, far from his sister, to seek his fortune among the mighty redwoods and sequoias of Gold Rush California. Hot-headed Sadie and buttoned-up James are a poor match, and Robert and his sister Martha can only watch helplessly as their parents tear each other apart. Life there is harsh, tempered only by the apples they grow for eating and for the cider that dulls their pain. In the inhospitable Black Swamp of Ohio, the Goodenough family are barely scratching out a living. 'A wonderful book rich, evocative, original.
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