A review by caterinaanna
Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland

5.0

The scary thing about Goodreads linking to Amazon is that I know I bought this in June 2014, shortly after reading [b:A Book of Silence|4437202|A Book Of Silence|Sara Maitland|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1331151648s/4437202.jpg|4485395] to which I gave five stars … and yet I only got round to reading it when prompted by a reading challenge. And it is a book that appeals to my eclectic tastes by combining literature and language and anthropology and environment and history and biology and biography and travel in a cogently argued thesis about the origin of fairy stories interspersed with retellings of the tales in places and ways where they best illustrate the point being made. All this and evocative photographs too. What’s not to like?