'The wildest land', a frontier story without testosterone celebrations. A woman flees an English settlement in Virginia in the 17th century.

Lauren Groff's novel is an epic adventure against hunger and cold, but also a feminist, anticolonial and environmentalist plea. In The Wildest Land the protagonist is female, which multiplies the potential dangers and turns the novel into a metaphor for what it means to be a woman in the world. She has the vague plan of heading north, towards the French colonies, where she hopes to take refuge.