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Damnation Spring

By: Ash Davidson
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, CJ Wilson, Mark Sanderlin, Rebecca Lowman
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*'Probably the best novel I'll read this year. It's about work and love and characters who ring true. By the time I was 50 pages in I couldn't put it down. Can't stop thinking about it' Stephen King*

For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has made a living felling giant redwoods on California's rugged coast. It's treacherous work, and though his son, Chub, wants nothing more than to step into his father's boots, Rich longs for a bigger future for him.

Colleen just wants a brother or sister for Chub, but she's losing hope. There is so much that she and Rich don't talk about these days ­- including her suspicions that there is something very wrong at the heart of the forest on which their community is built.

When Rich is offered the opportunity to buy a plot of timber which borders Damnation Grove, he leaps at the chance - without telling Colleen. Soon the Gundersens find themselves on opposite sides of a battle that threatens to rip their town apart. Can they find a way to emerge from this together?

(P)2021 Simon & Schuster Audio©2021 Ash Davidson Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Small Town & Rural
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[An] ambitious, assured debut... a devastating page-turner with a love story at its centre
A strong work of climate fiction... rooted in age-old man-versus-nature storytelling. An impressively well-turned story about how environmental damage creeps into our bodies, psyches, and economies
Beautiful, timeless and breathtaking
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This was a slow burn, and it took me a while to get into it. But once I did, and the storylines mingled I was so invested in these peoples lives that I needed to know what happened to them. The passion with which Ash Davidson writes about the forest makes becomes another character in the narrative. Well worth a listen, and an author to watch out for.

A richly woven tapestry of characters

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