Shadow Forest [Hardcover]

A dahl-esque fairy tale from a highly acclaimed adult author

Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn't know it yet. Right now, he and his sister Martha are in the back of his parents car. He has no idea a giant log is about to fall from the sky and change his life forever. He doesn't know that he and Martha will be forced to move to Norway and eat their Aunt Eda's smelly brown cheese. He hasn't the slightest clue Martha will disappear into Shadow Forest. A forest full of one-eyed trolls, the sinister huldre-folk, deadly Truth Pixies and a witch who steals shadows. A forest ruled by the evil Changemaker. A forest so dangerous that people who enter never return.

No. Samuel Blink doesn't know any of this. So don't tell him. It might ruin the book . . .

Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn't know it yet. Right now, he and his sister, Martha, are in the back of his parents' car.

He has no idea that a giant log is about to fall from the sky and change his life for ever. He doesn't know that he and Martha will be forced to move to Norway and eat their Aunt Edna's smelly brown cheese. He hasn't the slightest clue Martha will disappear into Shadow Forest. A forest full of one-eyed trolls, the sinister huldre-folk, deadly truth pixies and a witch who steals shadows. A forest ruled by the evil Changemaker. A forest so dangerous that people who enter never return.

No. Samuel Blink doesn't know any of this. So don't tell him. It might ruin the book . . .

Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn't know it yet. Right now, he and his sister, Martha, are in the back of his parents' car. He has no idea that a giant log is about to fall from the sky and change his life for ever. He doesn't know that he and Martha will be forced to move to Norway and eat their Aunt Edna's smelly brown cheese. He hasn't the slightest clue Martha will disappear into Shadow Forest. A forest full of one-eyed trolls, the sinister huldre-folk, deadly truth pixies and a witch who steals shadows. A forest ruled by the evil Changemaker. A forest so dangerous that people who enter never return.

No. Samuel Blink doesn't know any of this. So don't tell him. It might ruin the book . . .

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Matt Haig is in his early thirties and lives in the north of England. He has written for the Guardian and Independent, has worked for the Manumission nightclub in Spain, and has run his own Internet marketing firm. He is the author of eight business books, including BRAND FAILURES; THE LAST FAMILY IN ENGLAND, the story of the Hunter family as told by their pet Labrador, Prince; and THE DEAD FATHERS CLUB. SHADOW FOREST is his first children's book.