Dimensions
129 x 197 x 25mm
A Book of the Year - The Times
A Book of the Year - Observer
A Book of the Year - Mail on Sunday
Cape Town in 1914 is a place where a person can be whoever they want to be. Former tutor Piet Barol is handsome and charismatic; a scoundrel who has reinvented himself as the Vicomte de Barol, and is living by his wits, selling elegant furniture to the rich and newly rich. But with creditors nipping at his heels, Piet knows he must find a cheap source of wood, and soon. When he hears about the fabled trees of Gwandana, he embarks on journey into the heart of the sacred forest. But in his ambition to succeed, he does not fully comprehend the enormous price this land, and its people, will exact on him...
