This book was a true experience. Never in all my life have I read a book that moved me so. Into That Forest is a heartbreaking yet beautiful story about freedom, survival, and learning. It is truly captivating.
Written like a narrative, the book is the story of two sisters, Hannah and Rebecca, who find themselves lost in the Tasmanian jungle after a terrible accident but are saved by two wild Tasmanian tigers. The story is told by an elderly Hannah; she regales the reader with the astonishing events of her childhood using her native language, which she explains, is no longer fluent because "I lost it and had to learn it again.”
In the story, the young girls have to adapt to their new lives and they do so in different ways and paces. A powerful part of the book is the growing tension and emotions that are part of the bond hardening between the two girls. In the beginning the they are afraid of becoming wild animals but as they learn to hunt, run on all fours, and become fluent in tiger “language”, they also learn the cruelty of humans and how humans can be even more wild then the tigers.
This is a book you can become completely obsessed and engrossed in. It smoothly blends fact and fiction and recreates a beautiful historical setting; bringing to life all of its smells, sights, textures and expressions of the Tasmanian bush. The book brings up what it really means to be “human.” Into That Forest is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Readers of all ages will devour it and love it.
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