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The Trees by Ali Shaw (496 pages!)

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The Trees by Ali Shaw (496 pages!)

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Grab a drink from the bar and join us in the snug (the room directly opposite the main door) for "The Trees" by Ali Shaw...

There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins.

There is no warning. No chance to prepare. The trees arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground,
transforming streets, The Lass O'Gowrie and towns into shadowy forest.

Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realises that no help is coming, he ventures into this unrecognisable world. Alongside green-fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb, Adrien sets out to find 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.

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