Tobias is the Wild Man the villagers have been taught about through their oral and written traditions passed down over the centuries. For four-hundred years he’s been its keeper and caretaker, living like a hermit in his little cottage protected by the ancient giant oak as well as his friend Bramble, a dryad. nature as much as it is a story of man is nature, and though I don’t have synesthesia in any form, this story made me feel the color green and sense the divinity of the forest in the way we know things from instinct.

Review: Emily Tesh’s Silver in the Wood is a Green Man story, a little bit fairy tale and a whole lot of magic wrapped up in a writing style that flows like poetry off the page. Old secrets better left buried are dug up, and Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past-both the green magic of the woods, and the dark things that rest in its heart. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. At a Glance: Emily Tesh’s Silver in the Wood is a Green Man story, a little bit fairy tale and a whole lot of magic wrapped up in a writing style that flows like poetry off the page, and I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that it left me a bit heart-heavy too.īlurb: There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood.

Silver in the wood by emily tesh