![]() ![]() ![]() Henry has an adept ability to embed contemporary sentiment and controversy in all her novels, regardless of setting. I enjoyed watching Lauren’s transformation and the hints of strength that start as a whisper and end with a roar. ![]() As a child of the 80s, it transported me to a time that was simultaneously more simplistic and trying. Lauren is also increasingly estranged from her single mother Karen, and so when gruesome happenings occur in the small town – happenings Lauren feels strangely connected to – she’s left floundering. But when Miranda becomes more interested in boys with Camaros than traipsing through the woods, Lauren is confronted with forging her own identity apart from, and even in spite of, Miranda. Lauren and best friend Miranda have spent their younger years adventuring in a wood that keeps their childish secrets. On the cusp of womanhood, Lauren still clings to childhood and the ghost tree, her favourite secluded location in the woods. Lauren DiMucci, not quite 15, is set to start high school in the fall. ![]() Henry has managed to craft a tale that is equally gruesome as it is whimsically tender. Set in idyllic small-town Illinois, Ghost Tree is a delightfully whimsical horror novel that captures both the imagination as well as the mid-1980s North American teen zeitgeist. ![]()
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