Duncton Wood (the Duncton Chronicles) by William Horwood

This highest and most desolate part of Duncton Wood is also most venerable, for beneath its rustling surface is the site of the ancient mole system of Duncton, long deserted and lost. Here too stands the great Stone, at the highest point of the hill where the beeches thin out, bare to all the winds— north, south, east and west. And from here a mole might see, or rather might sense, the stretching triangle of Duncton Wood, spreading out below to the escarpment on the east side and the pastures on the west, with the marsh, where nomole goes, beyond the northern end. At the time Bracken and Rebecca first met, and for many generations before, the system lay on the lower slopes of the hill where the wood was wide and rich. There the beeches gave way to oaks and ashes and thick fern banks, and pockets of sun in the summer. Down there, life ran rich and good with a worm-full soil black with mould, moist with change. There the wind was slowed and softened by the trees. This 1990 Arrow Books Ltd Paperback is in good condition. Spine creased.

ISBN: 9780099443001 SKU: 1553108 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.