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A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion review – teenage chills in a rural community Hephzibah Anderson © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Sawitree Pamee/Getty Images On the last day of the school year, widowed single mum Faye Gallagher is driving her five bickering kids home when she snaps. Swerving on to the hard shoulder, she forces 12-year-old Ellen to get out of the car and walk the last five miles. Hours later, darkness has fallen and still Ellen hasn’t made it back. Don’t be misled. While Una Mannion’s debut ably fulfils the promise of its suspenseful start, provid...

A Crooked Tree This spur-of-the-moment decision will have far-reaching and devastating consequences not just for 12-year-old Ellen Gallagher but for her four siblings, an unruly family growing up in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania in the 1980s. Welcome to A Crooked Tree, the rich and atmospheric debut novel from Una Mannion, a writer who was born in Philadelphia but now lives in County Sligo in Ireland, and who thrills us with this resonant, moving and gripping coming-of-age tale set in the days when playtime meant roaming free, and the obsession with technology had not started to erode c...

Thrillers Spiked With Malice and Dread Credit...Nishat Akhtar Published Jan. 15, 2021Updated Jan. 18, 2021 It’s still dark! But here are some thrillers to help with all the time we are spending indoors. The title of the Australian writer Jane Harper’s latest novel, THE SURVIVORS (Flatiron, 374 pp., $27.99), refers to two things. The first is a sculpture memorializing a shipwreck whose ghostly remains lie off the coast of Evelyn Bay, a tiny summer community in Tasmania. The second are the traumatized, secrets-harboring residents left behind when a devastating storm killed three of the tow...