Our lady of the forest is a departure from snow falling on cedars much as bret ellis did in american psycho guterson is sticking his neck way out here the plot is fairly simple. Our lady of the forest book read 445 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers the story of a teenage girl who sees a vision of the virgin. June 17 our lady of the forest brittany is a land noted for its pilgrimages and that of folgoet is one of the foremost of them in the year 1419 a church took the place of a small chapel of our lady in the forest of lesneven and it became the center of a big ecclesiastical establishment with a famous pilgrim shrine. Our lady of the forest is a diamond amongst dross the writer david guterson a wonderful wordsmith and talented storyteller with a keen insight into the restless fears in every one of us i recognised every one of his carefully drawn characters. Our lady of the forest by david guterson 323pp bloomsbury gbp1699 if opinion polls are to be believed folks nowadays are just as hungry for the miraculous as they were in the dark ages