In this well-crafted and captivating thriller, Eleanor Catton takes the best elements of Shakespeare's Macbeth and Austen's writing style and makes her own unique story of surveillance, environmentalism, and activism. Uniquely structured and incredibly well-written, Birnam Wood is one that, once you get into it, you won't want to put down. Eleanor Catton is the author of the international bestseller The Luminaries , winner of the Man Booker Prize and a Governor General's Literary Award. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal , won the Betty Trask Award, was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize. She is also the screenwriter of Emma , a 2020 feature film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, she now lives in Cambridge, England. A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable f...