![]() Suffice it to say, though, it’s a gripping read with a number of appealing gothic/horror elements: a curse with a backstory straight from a fairy tale, witches and monsters, children with psychic abilities (not just Lauren, but also her four-year-old brother David), cover-ups from on high, and collective amnesia and hysteria. It’s hard to say much more about this book without giving away major spoilers. Yet the case doesn’t make the top headlines, and the local parents seem to forget the incident pretty quickly and continue to let their children play in the woods - because something is very wrong in Smiths Hollow. ![]() ![]() Lauren experiences a frightening vision of two girls from out of town being murdered in the same woods as her father - and it proves to be real when their heads and entrails are discovered close by, in the garden of local curmudgeon Mrs Schneider. In the run-up to high school, her oldest friend, Miranda, is growing away from her, and she’s also constantly arguing with her mother. We witness much of the action through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Lauren, who’s grieving for her father, who was found brutally murdered in the nearby woods the previous year. ![]() ![]() The Ghost Tree takes place in the 1980s, in the small town of Smiths Hollow, Illinois. ![]()
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