🦌 Welcome

Today I wanted to share with you this gorgeous book post. Pine by Francine Toon is out on the 23rd of January. I am going to the launch and really wanted to review the book beforehand. Delighted and grateful for my copy. I will pop more info about the book below and a wee link so you can pre-order your copy.

🦌 Pine by Francine Toon

They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men.

Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween night, Niall drives her back to their house in his pickup. In the morning, she’s gone.

In a community where daughters rebel, men quietly rage, and drinking is a means of forgetting, mysteries like these are not out of the ordinary. The trapper found hanging with the dead animals for two weeks. Locked doors and stone circles. The disappearance of Lauren’s mother a decade ago.

Lauren looks for answers in her tarot cards, hoping she might one day be able to read her father’s turbulent mind. Neighbours know more than they let on, but when local teenager Ann-Marie goes missing it’s no longer clear who she can trust.

In the shadow of the Highland forest, Francine Toon captures the wildness of rural childhood and the intensity of small-town claustrophobia. In a place that can feel like the edge of the word, she unites the chill of the modern gothic with the pulse of a thriller. It is the perfect novel for our haunted times.

🦌 Pre-order Link

🦌 Final Thoughts

I will keep you updated with my thoughts on the book as soon as I read it. Have a great Tuesday,

Kelly x

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