The Forrests
By: Emily Perkins
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781408809235
Subjects: Fiction
Description: Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift - and possible misfortune.
Notes: Novel.

Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 - Longlist (Formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction)

New Zealand Post Book Awards 2013 - Fiction - Finalist
Table of contents: title: Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wilderness of a commune, to falling in love, to early marriage and motherhood, from the glorious anguish of parenting to the loss of everything worked for and the unexpected return of love, Dorothy is swept along by time.