The Woman in the Dunes Mental health services This book includes a foreword

This book includes a foreword by Eunice Gayson

While the region is primarily a remote and mountainous glaciated wilderness

set in the midst of life's stark realities

And as he prepares to take the ailing Tallstar’s place as leader

'Ash and Hazel are one of my new favourite duos'

The Woman in the Dunes Mental health services This book includes a forewordNew to Penguin Modern Classics One of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where they are pressed into shovelling off the ever advancing sand dunes that threaten the village.