<b>“AS ENTERTAINING AS <i>SARUM</i> AND RUTHERFURD'S OTHER SWEEPING NOVEL OF BRITISH HISTORY, <i>LONDON</i>.”<br><i>–The Boston Globe</i></b><i><br></i><br>“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.”<br><i>–The New York Post<br></i><br><b>“<i>THE FOREST</i> IS MICHENER TOLD WITH AN ENGLISH ACCENT.”<br><i>–St. Louis Post-Dispatch<br></i><br>“TALES OF LOVE AND HONOR, DECEIT AND VIOLENCE, INHERITANCE AND LOSS.”<br><i>–San Jose Mercury News<br></i></b>