Book description
Thirty-nine, divorced, jobless: Benedick Hunter is going nowhere,
heading in the exact opposite direction he expected. So when he comes
across a children's book that his mother, Laura, wrote, he decides
that her life and work - haunting stories replete with sinister woods,
wicked witches and brave girls who battle giants - hold the key to
finding out why his own life is such a mess.
Setting out to discover why Laura killed herself when he was six,
Benedick travels to the US. As he grows more obsessed with what
happened to his mother, Benedick enters into a dark wood - one that is
both hilariously real and terrifyingly psychological. Dark humorous
and inventive, In a Dark Wood casts light on the nature of
depression, genius and of the healing power of storytelling.
Amanda Craig is the author of six novels including
Foreign Bodies
;
A Private Place
;
A Vicious Circle
;
Love in Idleness
; and
Hearts and Minds
. She is the children's book critic for
The Times
. She lives in London. For more information visit www. amandacraig. com.
