PINE (PB)

Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. They are driving back from a search party when a woman stumbles out onto the road. Niall drives her back to their house but in the morning, she's gone…In this book, Francine Toon captures the wildness of rural childhood, the intensity of small-town claustrophobia, and unites the chill of the modern gothic with the pulse of a thriller.