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 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel • Shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize • Shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize • Longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize • A Canada Reads 2023 Contender • One of CBC Books' Best Canadian Fiction of the Year

From the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud Atlas meets The Overstory in this ingenious nested-ring epic set against the devastation of the natural world.

They come for the trees. It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich-eco-tourists in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall and facing the possibility of his own death. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is just out of jail for one of her environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and rapacious timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is a Depression-era drifter who saves an abandoned infant, only to find himself tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie's effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival.

Transporting, beautifully written, and brilliantly structured like the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood reveals the knot of lies, omissions, and half-truths that exists at the root of every family's origin story. It is a magnificent novel of greed, sacrifice, love, and the ties that bind--and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light. Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Sincère
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The more I listened to this book the deeper I fell in love with Christie’s writing, characters & story. I adored how creative and compelling the story was. Couldn’t put it down.

Astonishingly creative

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Narration is great and the story really had me too. I binged it. Creative way to put it all together, can’t say more Just Get Going!

Best Audiobook Ever

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Spectacular read! The tone of voice is so beautiful and calming. The visuals the story creates are so vivid is transports you to another time and place. I love how the stories intertwine. I'd include this as one of my favorite books! Especially if you're a nature lover

spectacular read with exquisite visualization

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Outstanding book and performances. Deeply moving and so well written it often took my breath away or brought me to tears. I haven’t read a book this good and enthralling and unique in a long time. Highly recommend.

Highly recommend

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This novel displays true craft and beauty. Every word is where it is for a purpose just how every tree in this novel has a place.

A poem in prose

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