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North Woods
Daniel Mason
2023
The North Woods (2023) is a historical fiction novel by American writer Daniel Mason.
North Woods tells the story of the inhabitants of a single house in the woods of New England across the centuries.
Told in fragments, the novel begins when a couple absconding from a Puritan colony and concludes when a young researcher crashes her car near the site.
Two of the inhabitants are the twin daughters of a soldier, Charles Osgood, who discovers the house and decides to plant apples on the land around it. The daughters, Alice & Mary, are in kinship care with their aunt for several years before Charles takes them to live with him. Aged 4 when they begin living in the house, the sisters spend the rest of their lives together there.