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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013
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'Perkins is an extraordinary writer ... The Forrests is a novel to be savoured' - Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times
'Dexterously communicates some of life's less-syncopated rhythms ... Funny, painful and utterly mesmerising' - Independent on Sunday
'The novel I would most like to press into my friends' suitcases this summer ... kept me up reading late into the night' - Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph
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Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune.
Through the wilderness of a commune, to falling in love, to...