The release date for the English version of 'Greenwood' by
Michael Christie is Feb 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In 2034, Jake Greenwood, an overqualified tour guide who looks after affluent tourists in one of the world's few remaining woods, is a storyteller and a liar.
2008: Carpenter Liam Greenwood, sprawled on his broken back after falling from a ladder, cries out from the concrete floor of an abandoned mansion.
In 1974, Willow Greenwood, seeking redemption for the transgressions of her father's once-vast and ruthless timber industry, is released from prison following one of her interminable string of environmental rallies.
Everett Greenwood hears the cries of an abandoned newborn in 1934 as he is alone in his maple syrup camp squat. As usual, he becomes entangled in the web of a crime that would haunt his family for decades.
And all along, there are trees: they serve as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival while quietly and steadily beating beneath Christie's easy lines.
Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story about the links and breaking points of money and love, wood and blood, and the hopeful, impossible job of growing toward the light. It is a brilliant, intricate clockwork of a novel.