title: Forest (novel)
text: # Forest (novel)
  
  Forest is a novel written by the award-winning Australian novelist, Sonya Hartnett. It was first published in 2001 in Australia by Viking.
  
  ## Dedication
  
  "For Greg, who loves cats."
  
  ## Epigraph
  
  "'Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, Offer no angles to the wind." - A. S. Tessimond
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Won - CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (2002)
  * Shortlisted - South Australian Festival Awards for Literature (2002)
  
  ## Reception
  
  Discussing Forest, Lesley Hawkes finds that "Hartnett offers new and exciting avenues of thought regarding the place of humans in that [Australian] environment.".
  
  