num_pages: 400
description: Daughter of the Forest, the first book in Juliet Marillier's award-winning Sevenwaters Trilogy. Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives, they are determined that she know only contentment.But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift--by staying silent. If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever.When Sorcha is kidnapped by the enemies of Sevenwaters and taken to a foreign land, she is torn between the desire to save her beloved brothers, and a love that comes only once. Sorcha despairs at ever being able to complete her task, but the magic of the Fair Folk knows no boundaries, and love is the strongest magic of them all...
language: English
title: Daughter of the Forest
titlecomplete: Daughter of the Forest  (Sevenwaters, #1)
characters: Sorcha, Benedict of Greystones, Lady Anne, Padriac, Father Brian, Simon Holt, Fat Janis, Lord Colum, Eilis, Liam the God, Hugh of Harrowfield, Richard of Northwoods, Diarmid, Cormack, Seamus Redbeard, Finbar, Lady Oonagh, John (divers), Margery
genres: Historical, Young Adult, Adult, Magic, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Retellings, Fantasy, Romance
ratings_count: 63653
series: Sevenwaters
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Aurealis Award
category: Fantasy Novel
publisher: Tor Books