NO MAN COULD PROTECT A WOMAN MORE JEALOUSLY THAN SILAS HAS GUARDED HIS BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER MIRIAM.
Together they live by cutting wood and gathering honey, alone in a clearing in the green Eder of Africa's magnificent Knysna rain forest. Alone, that is, until the day a frightened, black-eyed group of Italian immigrants arrives, lured there by false official promises of mulberry trees and sheds to house their silkworms. A makeshift camp is set up. Silas is reluctantly drawn in to help. Miriam, meanwhile, has taken to slipping away into the forest, reappearing hours later, blushing with a secret joy...
The Mulberry Forest is a moving adventure of love and dispossession, marvellously recreating the struggles of the early settlers as they carve a life in the wild world of the African forest.