The Trees Free Download PDF By Ali Shaw
| Title | : | The Trees |
| Author | : | Ali Shaw |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 488 pages |
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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 stre 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
about Author
Ali Shaw is the author of The Trees, The Man who Rained and The Girl with Glass Feet, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize for first novels He grew up in Dorset and studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University He has worked as a bookseller and at Oxford s Bodleian Library He lives with his wife and two year old daughter.
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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 sere
488 pagesAli Shaw
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