*'Probably the best novel I'll read this year. It's about work and love and characters who ring
true. By the time I was 50 pages in I couldn't put it down. Can't stop thinking about it'
Stephen King* For generations Rich Gundersen's family has made a living felling giant redwoods
on California's rugged coast. It's treacherous work and though his son Chub wants nothing
more than to step into his father's boots Rich longs for a bigger future for him. Colleen just
wants a brother or sister for Chub but she's losing hope. There is so much that she and Rich
don't talk about these days - including her suspicions that there is something very wrong at
the heart of the forest on which their community is built. When Rich is offered the opportunity
to buy a plot of timber which borders Damnation Grove he leaps at the chance - without telling
Colleen. Soon the Gundersens find themselves on opposite sides of a battle that threatens to
rip their town apart. Can they find a way to emerge from this together?
