{"product_id":"the-trees-9781408862308","title":"The Trees","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compulsive, mesmerising and wildly imaginative novel in the vein of \u003ci\u003ePan's Labyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven \u003c\/i\u003efrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girl with Glass Feet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere 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\u003c\/i\u003eThere is no warning. No chance to prepare. The trees arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground,transforming streets 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 darknes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/i\u003e does for trees what Hitchcock did for birds. \u003cb\u003eYou have been warned\u003c\/b\u003e * Irish Times, ‘Books to Watch Out For in 2016’ *\u003cbr\u003eThe strength of the novel is in the \u003cb\u003evisceral \u003c\/b\u003edescriptions of the forest: the reader feels, smells and hears the trees, convincingly portrayed as \u003cb\u003esinister\u003c\/b\u003e, formidable and with \u003cb\u003eunnerving\u003c\/b\u003e intentions of their own. Shaw gradually builds up a sense of the supernatural, including “whisperers” … \u003cb\u003eA bold, intriguing conceit\u003c\/b\u003e for a dystopian environmental novel … A \u003cb\u003evaliant \u003c\/b\u003eexploration into notions of power and leadership, and what humans can do when tested to their limits * Observer, Paperback of the Week *\u003cbr\u003eStrange and \u003cb\u003ebrilliantly unsettling\u003c\/b\u003e, it’s a \u003cb\u003evivid \u003c\/b\u003elook at a world gone to the wild * Mail on Sunday, ‘The Best New Fiction' *\u003cbr\u003eA strange and vivid journey into an ancient forest that has taken over the world with force. \u003ci\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003cb\u003ethought-provoking meditation on what it means to be wild\u003c\/b\u003e. Death, darkness and eerie creatures lurk among the branches, but it’s the human characters that surprise the most ... Ali Shaw once again weaves \u003cb\u003ea fantastical and haunting story\u003c\/b\u003e * Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child *\u003cbr\u003eShaw’s climax is like nothing else, crescendoing with almost \u003cb\u003eCGI levels of spectacle\u003c\/b\u003e as \u003cb\u003eTarantino meets Middle Earth\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant ... Masterfully written and utterly enthralling ... \u003cb\u003eDark and beautiful ****\u003c\/b\u003e * Grazia *\u003cbr\u003eViolent, beautiful, devastating and utterly enchanting – a \u003cb\u003etriumph\u003c\/b\u003e * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning and vivid examination of the relationship between humans and the environment ... Shaw \u003cb\u003emasterfully \u003c\/b\u003ebrings every detail of the book to life. A \u003cb\u003ewonderfully imaginative\u003c\/b\u003e story, but also a compelling social commentary * Herald *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fairy story\u003c\/b\u003e for people who can still envisage a future that isn’t \u003ci\u003ecompletely\u003c\/i\u003e bleak * Stanley Donwood *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ecompelling \u003c\/b\u003eadventure * Marie Claire *\u003cbr\u003eSimultaneously bewildering and yet somehow hauntingly familiar, forcing us to consider how the natural world has become an elusive stranger to us all … \u003cb\u003eA complete triumph for Ali Shaw *****\u003c\/b\u003e * Western Mail, Book of the Week *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003egripping \u003c\/b\u003ejourney to the heart of wilderness … \u003ci\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea rarity and an absolute must-read\u003c\/b\u003e * Yorkshire Post *\u003cbr\u003eAn English ecological version of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Road\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eImaginative and \u003cb\u003eoriginal\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Post *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866821112151,"sku":"9781408862308","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408862308.jpg?v=1722280151","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-trees-9781408862308","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}