The overstoryNine strangers, each in different ways, become summoned by trees, brought together in a last stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. 'The Overstory' unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable, ranging from antebellum New York to the late 20th century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, revealing a world alongside our own vast, slow, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This

As the ship sets sail for America

Michael Pye sets out to rediscover the city that was lost and bring its wilder days to life using every kind of clue: novels

when hyperinflation wrought havoc with the German economy and plunged millions into poverty

princes and princesses of Wales

mental and recovery

and her white husband knows nothing of her past

perfect joy of a new-born baby

she learns that the man living there was the last person to see July's mother alive

the passengers and crew must survive their journey through theWastelands together - even as something uncontrollable seems to be breaking in

staggering wonder of the humpback whale

a creaking and surreal world that has been left to rot for decades in the shadows of polite society

But all is never as it seems