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An old soldier carves a croft out of the Finnish forest and calls it home, but try as he might to tame the land, its wild magic endures. For centuries his descendants will work the farm, through days of plenty and famine, love and war, their fates entangled with the rhythms of the ancient wilderness, where mysterious shapes flit between the trees and danger lurks in the treacherous fen...
Like dragonflies darting over the marsh, their lives glimmer briefly and then are gone: a young girl entranced by the forest folk, a faithless fiancé who meets his match beneath the age-old branches, a farmhand with a strange obsession....
What endures is the wild, and the certainty that wherever we put down roots, the land will grow roots in us too.
Contents
Whose Daughter 9
THE 17TH CENTURY
Nevabacka 17
Border Folk 33
THE 18TH CENTURY
The Chaplain 57
Johannes 78
The Trial 101
Forest Sister 112
Nettles 130
THE 19TH CENTURY
Bitter Herbs 157
Shadow Song 191
Bread and Stone 201
Bird Girl 220
THE 20TH CENTURY
Pests 267
Maps 297
Sleigh Ride 318
Summer with Doris 333
THE 21ST CENTURY
Decay 363
Inventory 391
Instructions 409
