Books like The trees by Ali Shaw
The night the trees arrive, they surge up from the earth, turning streets and towns into shadowy forests. Buildings crumble, and bodies, wrapped in tattered linens, hang among the twitching leaves. Adrien Thomas, an unlikely hero, learns that help is nowhere to be found and sets out into this unrecognizable world.
With his wife Michelle across the sea in Ireland, Adrien has no way of knowing whether the trees have come for her too. He encounters green‑fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb, and together they search for Hannah’s forester brother, hoping to reunite Adrien with his wife.
Their journey leads them through a place of terrible beauty and violence, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves, as they face the forest’s relentless growth.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Dystopian & Apocalyptic Fiction/Dystopian Fiction
Authors: Ali Shaw
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