num_pages: 488
description: There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then softly softly a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where not a minute before there had been a suburb there was now only woodland standing amid ruinsThere is no warning. No chance to prepare.They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies still wrapped in tattered bed linen hang among the twitching leaves.Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realises that no help is coming he ventures out into this unrecognisable world. Michelle his wife is across the sea in Ireland and he has no way of knowing whether the trees have come for her too. Then Adrien meets green-fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb. Together they set out to find Hannahs forester brother to reunite Adrien with his wife  and to discover just how deep the forest goes.Their journey will take them to a place of terrible beauty and violence to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves.
language: English
title: The Trees
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)