Tangled Roots

An old soldier carves a croft out of the Finnish forest and calls it home, but try as he might to tame the land, its wild magic endures. For centuries his descendants will work the farm, through days of plenty and famine, love and war, their fates entangled with the rhythms of the ancient wilderness, where mysterious shapes flit between the trees and danger lurks in the treacherous fen...Like dragonflies darting over the marsh, their lives glimmer briefly and then are gone: a young girl entranced by the forest folk, a faithless fiancé who meets his match beneath the age-old branches, a farmhand with a strange obsession....What endures is the wild, and the certainty that wherever we put down roots, the land will grow roots in us too.



Maria Turtschaninoff is known for crafting lyrical, historically inspired stories filled with magic and fantasy. She has won numerous prizes, including the Society of Swedish Literature Prize, the Swedish YLE Literature Prize and Finlandia Junior Prize, as well as being nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Her YA trilogy, The Red Abbey Chronicles, has sold in 31 territories around the world. Tangled Roots is Maria's first adult novel.