Title: The Forest
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 2000
Description: From the mysterious killing of King William Rufus, treachery and witchcraft, smuggling and poaching run through this epic tale of well-born ladies, lowly woodsmen, sailors, merchants and Cistercian monks.  The feuds, wars, loyalties and passions of generations reach their climax in a crime that shatters the decorous society of Jane Austen’s Bath. From the cruel forest laws of the Normans to the danger of the Spanish Armada, from the free-roaming herds of ponies and wild deer to the mighty oaks which gave Nelson his navy, Rutherfurd has captured the essence of this ancient place.  Forest and sea: there is no more perfect English heartland.
Subjects: Fiction, Historical fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, sagas, England, fiction, History, Fiction, historical, general, Romans, nouvelles
Places: New Forest (England : Forest)