![]() ![]() The village is run by the Sisterhood, a female religious order of apparently Christian origin, to judge by the mentions of their Scripture and Christmas Eve. The Return (all capitals are the book's), or zombie apocalypse, happened generations ago and everyone has been taught that theirs is the only village left in the world. She lives in a village surrounded by the Forest of the title, where the Unconsecrated, as the zombies are known, are kept Outside by a huge fence. ![]() ![]() Mary's world is a stiflingly small one, a world shrunk, as far as she knows, to a few hundred survivors of a zombie apocalypse. It was also mine on reading some of the many glowing reviews the book has received since its US publication earlier this year. You know that painful feeling of being seriously out-of-step with the rest of the world? Not being satisfied with what makes almost everyone else content or even deeply happy? That's the experience Mary, the narrator of Carrie Ryan's The Forest of Hands and Teeth, suffers through most of the book. ![]()
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