![]() It was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. When it came out this year, The Overstory received ecstatic reviews: “monumental” (New York Times), “profound and urgent” (New Scientist) and “a rousing, full-throated hymn to Nature’s grandeur” ( San Francisco Chronicle). “For five years I’ve been telling people I’m writing a novel about trees, and they’ve said: ‘Really?’”Īny such doubts have been safely put to bed. In spite of this wow factor, the project also encountered some scepticism, he explained. “But once I started looking, I realised it’s not about the size and scale … it’s that I’ve been blind to these amazing creatures all the time.” ![]() “When they’re as wide as a house and as tall as a football pitch you don’t have to be particularly sensitive to be wowed by it,” he told Emma John in a recent interview. Powers says the book was inspired by seeing Californian Redwoods. ![]()
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