Gossip from the Forest — Thomas Keneally

Author: Thomas Keneally
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: 1983 edition
ISBN: 0340333812

Condition: Good second-hand condition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, rubbing, small marks, and minor edge wear, with a small tear or crease near the lower jacket edge. Book appears clean and sound overall, with general age-toning. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Gossip from the Forest is a historical novel by Thomas Keneally, set around the armistice negotiations at the end of the First World War. In the Forest of Compiègne in November 1918, exhausted representatives from opposing sides gather in railway carriages to negotiate an end to the slaughter, revealing the political pressures, personal weaknesses, and human costs behind the formal machinery of peace.