![]() ![]() “Tesh lured me into her rich fairytale narrative with the warmth and strangeness, then hooked me on her intricate characters. It is, needless to say, excellent."-Alexandra Rowland Silver in the Wood's sparkle is that of clear water its flash the snap of a crackling fire, and Tesh's prose reads like returning to a dream long-forgotten or a song half-remembered. "It is easy to praise flash and sparkle, but the beauty of the simple and lighter-than-air is more difficult to capture. "A wildly evocative and enchanting story of old forests, forgotten gods, and new love. ![]() "Alive with old magic, Silver in the Wood made my hair stand on end even as it beckoned me to go deeper, and in the end I couldn't resist."-C. ![]() "Find a quiet place in a nearby wood, listen to the trees whisper, and thank the old gods and new for this beautiful little book, of which I intend to get lost in again and again."- Book Riot This fresh, evocative short novel heralds a welcome new voice in fantasy."- Publishers Weekly From Astounding Award winner and Crawford Award finalist Emily Tesh ![]()
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This does not affect the contents of my review and all opinions are my own. ![]() I received a review copy from the publisher. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel spans the course of single winter day, interspersed with memories from Sandy's life-childhood days spent with her distracted, scholarly grandfather in a remote cabin in British Columbia's interior mountains later recollections of new motherhood and then the tragic disappearance that would irrevocably shape the rest of her life, a day when all signs of the mysterious creature would disappear for thirty years. ![]() ![]() The words sasquatch, bigfoot and yeti never occur in this novel, but that is what most people would call the hairy, nine-foot creature that would become a lifelong obsession for Aidan Fitzpatrick, and in turn, his granddaughter Sandy Langley. 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The narrator (known only as Moi) is a self-described "champagne bubble of a girl" who sucked me into her diabolically shallow, perversely materialistic world in a New York minute. I didn't just read this book - I devoured it in one sitting. Culturally speaking, I had nowhere to go but up. I was watching six episodes of Gilmore Girls a day. Absolutely everyone wants to be one, but it's actually tres difficult." If I wanted to read a social comedy, I would pick up Emma or Vile Bodies, thank you very much. I would have never made it past the first line: "Bergdorf Blondes are a thing you know, a New York craze. Ordinarily, I would have recoiled from a perky Tiffany-blue cover emblazoned with a gigantic pink diamond ring. I'm really not one for this kind of thing. My summer job had ended and school hadn't yet begun, so I was free to spend my days in sweatpants on my couch, watching bad television. To say I was wallowing in self-pity was generous. I was fresh off the heels of a bad breakup. 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