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The Trees

By: Ali Shaw
Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
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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. They 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 realises that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognisable 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 Adrien 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.

©2016 Ali Shaw (P)2016 Bolinda Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Marriage
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An unusual story with a rich vivid landscape and many unusual characters. I did enjoy this book, there were some parts of dialogue that dragged on and on unnecessarily at times but other than that it's worth the read for something a little different.

The end of the world as we know it

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I liked the story but it lost my interest towards the end.

worth checking out but I don't think the story was really one for me

good until the end

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