OUT NOW: The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett
11th October 2022
We’re so excited to be wishing The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett a very happy book birthday!
This dual timeline tale of lost soldiers, frightened academics and the stories men will tell one another to cast women and girls as witches is the perfect read for fans of The Ritual, The Descent and The Blair Witch Project.
Good news, UK readers, you only have to wait two more days! (And if you’re in Edinburgh, come and join us for the launch!)
1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood… unwise though that may seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatural place, the realm of witchcraft and shadows, where the devil is said to go walking by moonlight…
Seventeen men enter the wood. Only two are ever seen again, and the stories they tell of what happened make no sense. Stories of shifting landscapes, of trees that appear and disappear at will… and of something else. Something dark. Something hungry.
Today, five women are headed into Moresby Wood to discover, once and for all, what happened to that unfortunate group of soldiers. Led by Dr Alice Christopher, an historian who has devoted her entire academic career to uncovering the secrets of Moresby Wood. Armed with metal detectors, GPS units, mobile phones and the most recent map of the area (which is nearly 50 years old), Dr Christopher’s group enters the wood ready for anything.
Or so they think.
“Blimey, this was creepy as hell!” — Claire North, author of Ithaca
“Haunting and heart-stopping. The Dark Between the Trees marks the arrival of a bold new voice in British horror.” — MR Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts
“Surreal and haunting” – Booklist