In A Dark Wood: A Novel

Thirty-nine, recently divorced, jobless, Benedick Hunter is an actor heading in the exact opposite direction of happily ever after: everything from spending time with his own children to the prospect of dating brings him down. So when he comes across a children's book his mother Laura wrote, he decides that her life and work—haunting stories replete with sinister woods and wicked witches and brave girls who battle giants—hold the key to figuring out why his own life is such a mess.

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