In the Forest Amit Chaudhuri becomes the central character in

becomes the central character in this haunting novel

Rosa takes a job as a supply drama teacher in the tough local comprehensive to which her two teenage children - a seventeen-year-old son and a fourteen-year-old daughter - also attend

And what happens in the decades afterwards

Harry Joy sees the world as it really is and takes up a notebook to explore and notate the true nature of the Underworld

where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome

In the Forest Amit Chaudhuri becomes the central character inBased on a horrendous true crime, IN THE FOREST si the story of Mich O'Kane 'not all there in the head' it's said who shoots three people dead in the woods of Ireland. Edna O'Brien traces the events that lead to such horror. Mich O'Kane hears voices; he cannot stop mourning the death of his mother. Theft and other crimes lead him to a Christian Brothers borstal, then to a British prison. By the time he returns home, he is an institutionalised criminal