Forest Silver

A novel rich in the period culture of the Lake District, ‘Forest Silver’ unfolds a story of village life unsettled with the arrival of evacuees during the Second World War. Wing-Commander Richard Blunt, recovering from a life-changing injury, comes into the orbit of the enigmatic and headstrong Corys de Bainrigg in a tale of love, longing and facing up to reality, with the ghost of wartime trauma ever an unwelcome guest. First published in 1941, ‘Forest Silver’ is an important work of Lake District fiction, in which E.M. Ward evokes her environment with pitch-perfect authenticity.