Y where daughters rebel men uietly 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 min.
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PDF/EPUB Francine Toon Å Pine PDF/EPUB À Å pine ebok, Pine PDF ''With all the lights on there is still a darkness in the house''In a small community in the haunting Scottish Highlands the strange disappearance of a mother has cast a shadow over the lives of the residents Lauren a 10 year old girl lives with her father and tries to find the links that may lead to the resolution of her mother's enigma and the healing of her family's wounds Strange incidents insecurity and bullying form a terrible labyrinth for the young girlThis novel is really something else The plot is tightly woven and touches on a plethora of themes There are elements of Mystery Horror Folklore Literary Fiction but at its heart lies a very real very deep story of a family that has lost its way and joy and a community that is divided between pity and cruelty Toon focuses on the father daughter relationship a very parti
PDF/EPUB Francine Toon Å Pine PDF/EPUB À Å pine ebok, Pine PDFI was really looking forward to Pine as it is described on the Book Jacket as “both eerie and thrilling” and seemed to be a perfect choice for one of my February reads However I am afraid this one failed to either thrill or creep me out hence my 2 star rating Set in the Highlands of Scotland in a small village surrounded by Pine Forest Lauren and her father Niall are struggling through life after the disappearance of Lauren’s mother a decade ago Neighbours whisper and gossip and appear to know that they let on and when a local teenager goes missing the community come out in force to find answers This is short book and yet I felt it dragged on and on The first couple of hundred pages slowly set the scene as the characters profiles are build up and yet I never connected or cared about any of them and while there is a little suspense in the story it never came across as gripping The last part of the n
PDF/EPUB Francine Toon Å Pine PDF/EPUB À Å pine ebok, Pine PDF10 year old Lauren lives with her dad Niall in a small Scottish town Her mother Christine disappeared some years ago Right from the start we are plunged into an intriguing eerie mystery a young woman keeps appearing around Strath Horne sometimes merely glimpsed and sometimes having extended interactions with others yet only Lauren seems able to remember her She slips from the others' minds as soon as she is out of sight even if they're mid conversationPart of what made Pine so beguiling to me was the opening chapter Lauren and her friend Billy are meeting up to go trick or treating or as it's called here guising Lauren is wearing her mother's lipstick; she's just vaguely half consciously beginning to understand that there are th
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PDF/EPUB Francine Toon Å Pine PDF/EPUB À Å pine ebok, Pine PDFI seem to be on a run of unsettling beautifully written novels at the moment Pine is incredibly moving intensely unnerving and genuinely absorbing from first page to lastThe edgy offbeat prose really digs deep it is a disjointed haunting tale that is at turns terrifying and heart wrenching Lauren sits at the centre of a maelstrom of adult emotion her connection to her missing mother tennous and spiritual – meanwhile danger lurks in the forest surrounding her while her father falls apart and the community grows stranger and off kilter by the momentThe setting is both beautiful and relentlessly claustrophobic
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PDF/EPUB Francine Toon Å Pine PDF/EPUB À Å pine ebok, Pine PDFFrancine Toon’s eerie and unsettling debut novel Pine is set in a small and remote Highland town where the nearest supermarket is 23 miles away and the planned opening of an Aldi has been a topic for discussion for months It is a community where everybody knows everybody else So it’s uite ironic that there’s a mystery at the heart of this story Just under ten years before the events described in the novel a young woman named Christine disappeared without a trace Her partner Niall and their baby Lauren are still struggling to come to terms with this The villagers gossip about Niall’s possible involve
PDF/EPUB Francine Toon Å Pine PDF/EPUB À Å pine ebok, Pine PDFI don’t know why reading something which is slightly spooky set in a cold location during the winter months is so satisfying but it is “Pine” takes place over the chilly months of Autumn and Winter in a remote town in the Highlands of Scotland where the community often helps each other through personal difficulties and hard times but there are also long held secrets bullying villains and mysterious characters The story centres around the lives of an adolescent girl named Lauren and her hard drinking father Niall Lauren’s mother Christine disappeared while she was a baby but there are moments where her ghostly spectre seems to haunt their lives Christine practiced New Age techniues and magic which is a speciality her daughter Lauren also pursues This a novel set in contemporary times but it harkens back to a gothic sensibility where the supernatural blurs into reality It makes for an atmospheric and riveting reading experience But there’s a
PDF/EPUB Francine Toon Å Pine PDF/EPUB À Å pine ebok, Pine PDFThis story is set in the rural Scottish highland community Lauren and her father Naill are driving through the wood that surrounds their village one Halloween when a woman stumbles onto the road They take her home with them ut in the morning she has disappeared Only Lauren remembers that the woman was there But where has she gone? Then Ann Marie goes missing Is there a link?This is an atmospheric and suspenseful read It starts off as a slow burner but the pace picked up around the middle The story is told in the greater part by ten year old Lauren Lauren's father Naill is dependent on alcohol and he still has ot come to terms with the loss of his wife Lauren has an unhealthy interest in Tarot cards and spell making This is a creepy thriller that'
PDF/EPUB Francine Toon Å Pine PDF/EPUB À Å pine ebok, Pine PDFSuch a disappointmentThe book opens up really atmospheric and has the potential to be really interesting And story at its core h