Description
When the internet collapsed, it took the world with it, leaving its digital ghosts behind - and they are hungry. Former photojournalist Katerina fled the overrun cities to the relative safety of her grandmother's village on the edge of a forest, where she lives a solitary life of herbal medicine and beekeeping.
When a wordless boy finds her in the marketplace with nothing but her name in his pocket, her curiosity won't allow her to turn him away. But haunting his arrival are rumours of harvest failure and a rampant digital disease stirring up the ghosts, and the mood in the village starts to sour.
Accused of witchcraft, Katerina and Stefan escape into the forest, searching for his missing father and the truth behind the disease. If there is a cure, Katerina alone might find it, but first she must find the courage to trust others - because the ghosts that follow her aren't just digital.
The internet is dead, and its ghosts haunt us all - a quiet, haunting post-apocalyptic novel for fans of The Last of Us and Station Eleven from British Fantasy Award-winning author Lorraine Wilson.
About the Author
A conservation scientist and third culture Scot, Lorraine Wilson lives by the sea writing stories influenced by folklore and the wilderness. She has a PhD from the University of St. Andrews and is the author of This Is Our Undoing, The Way The Light Bends, Mother Sea, and the novella The Last To Drown.
Winner of a BFA for her short fiction, her books have been longlisted for the BSFA, finalists for the BFA, Kavya and Saltire Awards, and twice winners of the SCKAwards. Lorraine has been stalked by wolves, caught the bubonic plague, and befriended pythons, but she now sticks to herding cats.
Reviews
"Complex, rich and beautifully crafted" - Claire North on Mother Sea
"Lyrical, moving, and at times haunting... This is a book I will be thinking about for a long time. Just brilliant!" - Awais Khan on Mother Sea
"We Are All Ghosts In The Forest is a poignant and lyrical portrayal of intimate frailties and quiet strength. In killing the Internet, Wilson makes us contemplate the majesty of the natural world -- both its beauties and its horrors." -Nicholas Binge, author of Ascension
"An intricately-woven tale that blends fairy stories, contemporary anxieties about climate change and the influence of technology on our human selves, with a story that is, at its core, a tale of community and connection." -Angie Spoto, author of The Grief Nurse
Book Information
ISBN 9781837861446
Author Lorraine Wilson
Format Hardback
Imprint Solaris
Publisher Rebellion Publishing Ltd.
