The Wolf In the Woods

Author: Martin Allison Booth

Title: The Wolf In the Woods

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 392

Release Date: 2024-09-01

Details: The Wolf in the Woods
by Martin Allison Booth

It's 1940. Three refugees - a mother with her two children - are forced into exile through the occupation of their homeland, Estonia, by the Soviet army. The trouble is, their escape from one threat only brings them into another hostile environment; Nazi Germany. The mother, who is dying of a terminal illness and her children, just ten and six years old, have to find ways to survive the enormity of war. Meanwhile, her husband, the children's father, has ended up in an impossible situation himself. He has to work to regain his country's independence from the Soviets through having to ally himself with the Abwehr, the German Intelligence service. In this, he is playing a dangerous game as unbeknownst to them, he remains in contact with the British Intelligence Service.

The Wolf in the Woods, originally published in Estonia as Hunt Metsas by the highly-regarded Eesti Raamat, is now available in an English language version. It is based on one family's experiences during the turmoil of the Second World War. A fascinating blend of biography and historical fiction it is presented in the form of a family saga and a wartime thriller. It is an epic tale of a people enduring the consequences of others' political ambitions. It is ultimately - as it was for hundreds of thousands of Estonians - a tragic tale of loss and exile. It is the story of ordinary folk living extraordinary lives by being forced to make impossible decisions in situations beyond their control.
Much of what is depicted in the story actually happened.

From the opening chapter:
The rusting passenger ship shoulders its way through the scrambled seas; beyond the outer harbour and off into the night. The fourth row of portholes, the lowest, dips itself into the restive sea; sometimes below the waterline, sometimes reaching out as if gasping for air. There, in a squalid little cabin, Leena, her ten-year-old daughter and her six-year-old son share one of six bunks. Little Maret wipes the filth from the single porthole with her elbow. She only succeeds in smearing the grease further. Peering into the night, her breath blossoms on the glass. She tries to catch a final glimpse of the lights of her home. She can see nothing but the sea; a giant's chest heaving and falling.
A few hours later, failing to sleep, Maret whispers two questions into her mother's ear. The two questions that will echo in her mind and her heart every waking moment from that night onward:
When are we going home?
Where's Father?

EAN: 9781789634617

Package Dimensions: Height: 8 inches, Length: 5 inches, Weight: 0.93035074564 pounds, Width: 0.87 inches