A book that starts on Halloween night? Well then isn’t November just the perfect month to be reading Pine by Francine Toon!
Gothic chill
As I’m writing this it’s currently dark outside. The wind is blowing and the rain is hammering. The leaves are every color of the rainbow and the moon is full. Could you get any more of a perfect setting for a little bit of rural gothic? Nope thought not, hence our November book of the month is Francine Toon’s debut Pine. Set in the Highlands on Halloween it’s sinister, eerie, secretive and OH SO PERFECT for nights stuck in doors.
Pine – the blurb
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.
Join Us…
We will be sharing our Big Review of Pine on 27th October. A series of Book Club questions will also be around for you to answer on 26th. Don’t wait until then though, we would love to know your marks out of ten as soon as you have read it. So grab your copy and read along with us.