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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.

Бестселлер Sunday Times Топ лучших романов 2020 года по версии Telegraph Премия McIlvanney Prize 2020 Лонг-лист Highland Book Prize 2020 Среди сосен в темном лесу кто‑то бродит. Призрак, чужой или безмолвная тень женщины? Далеко в полях местные видели костры, находили камни, выложенные в круг. Говорят, это проделки ведьмы. Той самой ведьмы, что давным-давно ушла…

Среди сосен в темном лесу кто-то бродит. Призрак, чужой или безмолвная тень женщины? Далеко в полях местные видели костры, находили камни, выложенные в круг. Говорят, это проделки ведьмы. Той самой ведьмы, что давным-давно ушла из дома и не вернулась. С тех пор ее муж Найл научился жить заново. Днями он один воспитывает дочь, вечерами заливает тоску алкоголем.

Он никогда не говорит с десятилетней Лорен о маме. И девочка ищет ответы в картах Таро... Она хотела бы знать, о чем судачат местные. Кто та женщина-призрак в белом халате, что бродит в лесу? Куда ушла темной ночью ее соседка Анн-Мари? А главное, она хотела бы знать, о чем молчит ее отец. Что он скрывает в той комнате, которая вечно закрыта?

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 spare, haunting prose, Francine Toon creates an unshakeable atmosphere of desolation and dread. In a place that feels like the end of the world, she unites the gloom of the modern gothic with the pulse of a thriller. It is the perfect novel for our haunted times.