Tangled Roots

An old soldier carves a croft out of the Finnish forest and calls it home, but try as he might to tame the land, its wild magic endures. For centuries his descendants will work the farm, through days of plenty and famine, love and war, their fates entangled with the rhythms of the ancient wilderness, where mysterious shapes flit between the trees and danger lurks in the treacherous fen...Like dragonflies darting over the marsh, their lives glimmer briefly and then are gone: a young girl entranced by the forest folk, a faithless fiancé who meets his match beneath the age-old branches, a farmhand with a strange obsession....What endures is the wild, and the certainty that wherever we put down roots, the land will grow roots in us too.



Maria Turtschaninoff is known for crafting lyrical, historically inspired fantasy stories starring strong female protagonists. She is a two-time winner of the Society of Swedish Literature Prize, a nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and winner of the 2014 Finlandia Junior Prize. Maria has a Master of Arts in human ecology and works full-time as a writer. Her Red Abbey Chronicles, YA fantasy novels Maresi, Naondel, Maresi Red Mantle have sold in 31 territories around the world. Tangled Roots is Maria's first adult novel. A.A. Prime is an award-winning translator from Swedish to English. Her previous translations for Pushkin Children's include Maria Turtschaninoff's Red Abbey Chronicles.