The Thing in the Forest (Storycuts)
A S Byatt
  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448128365
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 52

The Thing in the Forest (Storycuts)

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Two middle-aged women return to the forest where they encountered something terrifying as children.

Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two little girls, extracted from their homes in wartime London, encounter something terrifying in a forest. Later when they meet as grown women, they realise the experience has coloured their lives. A dark tale about the nature of stories themselves.

Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of Stories.
  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448128365
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 52
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A S Byatt

A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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