Wood At Midwinter

**The Times instant Top Ten bestseller****Named a book to look out for in 224 by the Sunday Times, Guardian and BBC****A small hardback edition featuring an afterword by the author**From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting Christmas short story_________________________________A church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. Theyre the same thing really.Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scott is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees - and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods.One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig, Merowdis encounters a blackbird and a fox. As darkness falls, a strange figure enters in their midst - and the path of her life is changed forever.Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke has made the very notion of genre seem quaint GuardianA miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling Madeline Miller **With exquisite illustrations by Victoria Sawdon**