Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love.
Juliet Marillier brings us a beautifully re-imagined version of the Six Swans myth in Daughter of the Forest.
It is based on the legendary story of an evil stepmother opposed by a seventh child, with her brothers turned into swans.
Fantasy novel first published in 1999. First in the Sevenwaters trilogy. Based on 'The Six Swans' from the Grimm brothers' collection.
The second volume of the trilogy is 'Son of Shadows'.
The first book in the epic and compulsively readable Sevenwaters series "I enjoyed it immensely.
The forests of the Pacific Northwest are lands of mist and rain, of towering trees and salmon-choked rivers.