Just finished reading this and it was so good I’m struggling to coherently review it. I just want to pour superlatives everywhere and press copies into everyone’s hands so they can experience it themselves.

And now, a day later, here are my calmer, slightly more coherent, thoughts:

This is a book about the intersections between folklore, history, humanity and ecology. It is rooted in one myth (Herne the Hunter) and one place (Great North Wood but is played out across time, both past and future. It is not one coherent narrative but rather chronologically linked short stories, woven together with chants and poems and charms, all combining to tell an overarching story. It is both microcosm and macrocosm and each page is a portal to another world. It swept me away and returned me changed and charged with intent and energy. It was magical from start to finish as well as being beautifully crafted in every sense and I can’t wait to read Zoe’s other work.