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The trees

Ali Shaw

2016483 pagesabout 7–11 hours
2016
first published
  • 2016Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN 9781408862247
  • 2016Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 483 pages · ENGISBN 9781408862308
  • 2016Bloomsbury USA · 488 pages · ENGISBN 9781632862839
  • 2016Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 496 pages · ENGISBN 9781408862254
  • 2016Bolinda AudioISBN 9781489099327

The trees arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves. Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realizes that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognizable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the sea in Ireland and he has no way of knowing whether the trees have come for her too. Then he meets green-fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb. Together, they set out to find Hannah's forester brother, to reunite Adrien with his wife--and to discover just how deep the forest goes. Their journey will take them to a place of terrible beauty and violence, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves.

How it feels

AtmosphereMagical

When and where

PlaceForest
ThemesSurvival
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