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Ohio, 1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled in the Black Swamp, planting apple trees to claim the land as their own. As fever picks off their children, husband and wife take solace in separate comforts.
Fifteen years later their youngest son, Robert, is drifting through gold rush California. When he finds steady work for a plant collector, peace seems finally to be within reach. But the past is never really past, and one day Robert is forced to confront the brutal reason he left behind everything he loved.

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Apples and apple trees: The New American Orchardist by William Kenrick (1841); The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America by A. J. Downing (1845); The New Book of Apples by Joan Morgan and Alison Richards (2002); The Story of the Apple by Barrie E. Juniper and David J. Mabberley (2006); Apples of Uncommon Character by Rowan Jacobsen (2014).

The Black Swamp: The Great Black Swamp: Historical Tales of 19th-Century Northwest Ohio by Jim Mollenkopf, vols. 1-3 (1999-2008).

Redwoods and sequoias: The Mammoth Tree Grove, Calaveras County, California, and Its Avenues by Edward Vischer (1862); The Wild Trees by Richard Preston (2007); Calaveras Big Trees by Carol A. Kramer (2010); The Enduring Giants: The Epic Story of Giant Sequoia and the Big Treesof Calaveras by Joseph H. Engbeck Jr. (2013).

William Lobb: Hortus Veitchii by James H. Veitch (1906); A Reunion of Trees by Stephen A. Spongberg (1990); The Plant Hunters: 200 Years of Adventure and Discovery Around the World by Toby Musgrave, Chris Gardner and Will Musgrave (1998); Seeds of Fortune: A Gardening Dynasty by Sue Shephard (2003); Blue Orchid and Big Tree: Plant Hunters William and Thomas Lobb and the Victorian Mania for the Exotic by Sue Shephard and Toby Musgrave (2014).

California Gold Rush: Three Years in California by Rev. Walter Colton, edited by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (1949); Off at Sunrise: The Overland Journal of Charles Glass Gray , edited by Thomas D. Clark (1976); The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience by J. S. Holliday (2002).

It’s good to read about trees, but even better to go out and actually see some. Calaveras Grove is open to visitors all year round, though the glorious South Grove (Robert’s “secret” trees) is inaccessible between November and April. You can stand on the Great Stump, and see Chip Of the Old Block (for some reason it’s “Of” not “Off’). The bowling alley and saloon and hotel are long gone. There are also giant sequoias further south at Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. There are redwoods up and down the California coast, protected in many national and state parks. In the United Kingdom, there are a surprising number of sequoias and redwoods still growing in parks and in the gardens of stately homes-the continuing fruits of William Lobb’s collecting. And a redwood grove on the Welsh borders does indeed exist: the Charles Ackers Redwood Grove was planted in 1857 by John Naylor of Leighton Hall-though I have taken a novelist’s liberties with the details of that commission and planting.

If you are curious about who is “real” in this book: John Chapman (aka Johnny Appleseed) and William Lobb did exist, and brought apple trees to Ohio and Indiana, and North and South American plants and trees to Britain. Billie Lapham did co-own Calaveras Grove; after Nancy Lapham’s death from TB in 1858, Billie moved to Lake Tahoe and successfully developed tourism there.

Dody Bienenstock exists even today! Her daughter bought her the privilege of having a character named after her, at an auction to raise funds for Freedom from Torture, a UK charity that provides treatment and rehabilitation for survivors of torture. Dody, we need more landladies like you.

Most of the places are real, as indicated on the map at the front of this book. The sharp-eyed among you will note, however, that one dot on that map is imaginary: Rancho Salazar in Texas. That is what novels do: mix up the real and the imagined until the boundaries are blurred.

I would like to thank: Tony Kirkham at Kew Gardens, London. Sue Shephard and Toby Musgrave for help with William Lobb. Jill Attenborough and Stephen Taylor for taking me around Lathcoats Farm near Chelmsford, Essex, allowing me to pick apples and answering endless questions about apple trees. Matthew Thomas and Nick Dunn at Frank P. Matthews Trees for Life in Worcestershire for generously providing me with my first taste of a Pitmaston Pineapple. Rebecca Trenner for explaining horses and their personalities to me. My stellar team of editors and agents, Andrea Schulz, Katie Espiner, Cassie Browne, Jonny Geller and Deborah Schneider. Biggest and best thanks to Jonathan Drori for getting me actively interested in trees in the first place.

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TRACY CHEVALIER is the author of eight novels, including The Last Runaway, Remarkable Creatures and Girl with a Pearl Earring, an international bestseller that has sold over five million copies and won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. Born in Washington DC, in 1984 she moved to London, where she lives with her husband and son.

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