Duncton Wood

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Love, laughter, trauma, death, betrayal, redemption, and faith crafted so lovingly into the tale that they are at once jarring and enriching one you step back and equivocation mole to humanity.

Every sentence is heart taking, so true and real is the world of mole life created by Hardwood to the reader. Still, the point stands that Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and Dandelion felt like rabbits and Bracken, Rebecca, Mandrake, Boswell, and Mekkins feel like human beings).

These are in a way more action-packed then the first in the series (which was originally a stand-alone novel, then years later Horwood wrote two more out of the blue). If Richard Adams ( Watership Down) and Tolkien wrote a book together (however unlikely that sounds) it might look something like Duncton Wood. I am sorry to have to mention Watership Down again but in both these books the English countryside is depicted in such a beautiful way that it helps English readers like I realised what a lovely country we do live in.

Bracken was born on an April night in a warm dark burrow deep in the historic system of Duncton Wood, six moleyears after Rebecca. Now her son by Tryfan, Lucerne, will consolidate their ascendancy and root and and kill the last followers of the Stone. Duncton Wood' is a book I well remember coming out and about which I was a little scathing at the time. We have traveled to places such as Stonehenge and danced for the moles and left offerings of bread and milk to symbolize the Earth Goddess of nature and her love for us all. I fell in love with those stories, and when I saw Duncton Wood on the “new releases” shelf, I grabbed it.All of Willocks' books are bloody great reading, but this is his first "Dogs" novel (his previous novels are about, let's see. We are told for instance that the Duncton council of Elders did "business" at their meetings, but not of what nature that business is, or really what the elders did at all.