Physical description

Hard cover book. Far Forest
Author: Francis Brett Young
Publisher: William Heinemann Limited
Date: 1936
Further Information: Blue Cloth hardcover,and green spine with lettering in white to spine and a personal crest/coat of arms of the English author Francis Brett Young to front cover. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with the typed text PAT FIC YOU
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Flyleaf has a stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute

Summary

Far Forest follows three generations of the Wilden family and their lives in a stone cottage in the Gladden Valley, on the northern border of Shropshire. The main characters are the cousins David and Jenny, of the family’s youngest generation, who fall in love at first sight as children. The setting is the real Wyre Forest, but Young renamed it ‘Werewood’, and the ‘Gladden Brook’ is, in reality, Dowles Brook. A reader noted that David and his father, Jem, contrast the forest with the grimy industrial life of North Bromwich (in reality, the city of Birmingham) and the coal-ridden valleys of South Wales.