Publisher's Synopsis
Persephone spends six months of the year under the ground with her husband Hades, King of the Dead; and six months on earth with her mother Demeter, Goddess of the Harvest. It has been this way for nine thousand years. But when she resurfaces this spring, something is different. Rains lash the land, crops grow out of season or not at all, there are people trying to build a road through the woods, and her mother does not seem able to stop them. The natural world is changing rapidly, and even the gods have lost control. Persephone finally gets a taste of freedom, joining a group of protestors. Used to blinking up at the world from below, as she looks down on the earth for the very first time from the treetops, she realises that there are choices she can make for herself.
