"'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.".