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The Flesh of Trees Kindle Edition

by Kath Middleton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
“Don’t play in the Green Wood. Children disappear in there!”

All her life, twelve year-old Sylvie Hummel has heard these words, but still she disobeys her parents and enters the Green Wood. Now she knows what happened to the missing children.

Let in on the secret, her cousin Erik also falls under the spell of the forbidden wood. But soon a ruthless forest owner shatters the cousins’ lives, and when he threatens to fell the trees in the Green Wood, he discovers what Sylvie and Erik have long known: these trees have their own protection.
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  1. Print length
    264 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    March 24, 2018
  4. Reading age
    13 - 17 years
  5. File size
    350 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07BPLMNHP
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hilltop Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 24, 2018
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 350 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 - 17 years
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

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Kath Middleton

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Kath Middleton began her writing with drabbles (100 words stories) and contributed a number to Jonathan Hill’s second drabble collection. It wasn’t long before she moved up a size to contribute short stories to anthologies. Shortly afterwards, she progressed to writing longer pieces and her first solo work, Ravenfold, was published to much acclaim. This was followed by the novella, Message in a Bottle. There are now several more publications from short stories to novels. Kath likes to put her characters in difficult situations and watch them work their way out. She believes in the indomitable nature of the human spirit (and chickens).

Kath is retired. She graduated in geology and has a certificate in archaeology. When she's in a hole, she doesn't stop digging.

website - http://www.kathmiddletonbooks.com/

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  • Rosemary Pooser
    5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful fairy tale!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2018
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    A gorgeous fable and fairy tale with wonderful story-telling told through the innocent eyes of children, sight not yet jaded by adulthood that envisions a magical world. And as with all great fables, there is a moral to the story. Middleton is a new author to me and I'm glad to have discovered her, as this will not be the last of her books I read.
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  • Nicola Mills
    5.0 out of 5 stars Had me with the title
    Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2018
    This to my mind is the best book yet from versatile author Kath Middleton. While she is highly skilled at humour and at supernatural suspense, this is the first I’ve seen from her such rich descriptive writing in which the reader can simply submerge themselves. The plot is neat and relatively simple, combining the oft-told story of the little man against the greedy entrepreneur with the mystery of what happens to the village children who wander into the wrong part of the forest. As so often with Middleton, the characters are entirely natural, sympathetically drawn and real. A very fitting addition to the Middleton corpus.
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  • Susan Wallace
    4.0 out of 5 stars A very good read.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2018
    The Flesh of Trees by Kath Middleton.
    “Don’t play in the Green Wood. Children disappear in there!”
    All her life, twelve year-old Sylvie Hummel has heard these words, but still she disobeys her parents and enters the Green Wood. Now she knows what happened to the missing children.
    Let in on the secret, her cousin Erik also falls under the spell of the forbidden wood. But soon a ruthless forest owner shatters the cousins’ lives, and when he threatens to fell the trees in the Green Wood, he discovers what Sylvie and Erik have long known: these trees have their own protection.
    This took me a little while to get into but once I got into it I found it very good. It was different. 4*.
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  • Yvonne
    4.0 out of 5 stars What story have these ancient tress to tell
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2018
    Tronhafen is a logger’s village, everyone who lived there worked for Grassen, an unethical employer who was only out to make a profit. Children have been going missing for as long as the villagers can remember. Every child had been warned not to go into Green Woods, but in any close community, there is always that one child who ignores the warnings.
    Sylvie Hummel was 12-year-old girl, with a bit of a rebellious streak. Looking for adventure, she ignored the warning about going into the woods. When she entered the woods, what she saw would change her life for ever. Ancient trees covered the land each with their own stories to tell. Although she was young, she had an old head on her, and when the troubles started at the mill, she understood the danger that was coming to the village. Going into the wood she soon found out the secret of the Green wood and was quick enough to share it with her cousin Erik
    The use of ancient trees to tell the story gave it a unique storyline that I have not come across before. The author’s descriptive style had you feeling that you were walking the paths with Sylvie. As the story spanned over 18 years, you follow the families as they age and grow. This story shows how humans can ruin the environment with their profit-making mentality and with more forest been destroyed does make you think. With its fantasy style to the story, you will have more respect for the gnarled oak that you see in the woods and will wonder what story they have to tell.
    This is a gentle read and a good introduction to this new to me author
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  • r j askew
    5.0 out of 5 stars 'Ah the forest, the forest is dead, Sylvie'
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2018
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    The foresters toil in the sterile plantation for a rapacious businessman whose only aim is to maximise his profit. The men are almost serfs to the businessman. Such is the background in which young Sylvie, her brother and cousin grow up. In contrast, the ancient wood profoundly troubles their parents. The forest seems to represent how we are, the present, the urge to control and exploit, whereas the ancient wood seems to represent how we were in more innocent times, a place of variety and otherly spirits, when anything was possible. Two interrelated stories evolve which expertly blend reality with fancy in such a way as to suspend disbelief at the powerful yet gentle natural forces that shape the children's lives. Sylvie's world is convincingly and beautifully drawn. We believe in her. Yet at the same time she is a modern fairy-tale princess. That said, she has a definite sense of her own place and fate and is confident enough to take risks when others do not and to grasp her own destiny. Just as Sylvie is evolving, the very plausible conflict in the adult world comes to a head. Profound moral questions arise as the lives of the adults are variously rocked in the face of greed and the fear of otherness. Their lives seem to be caught in a narrow band between economic reality and lost innocence. Even the children know that as they grow up they, too, will cease to be able to commune with nature. They too face difficult choices, choices which torment their parents. I felt for the parents. Sylvie makes a morally worthy choice which is painful for her parents. Maybe this is what we all need if we are to be saved from our own rapaciousness. Maybe only children such as Sylvie have the power to see things we cannot. It's a sobering thought. So there are some big issues and themes bubbling away in THE FLESH OF TREES. The story-telling is expertly handled and I found the characters all well drawn and believable. And to my complete surprise the story triggered some personal thoughts of how I was with my own parents. So this is a story that, for me, reached into me and unlocked some deep memories. Bearing in mind the forces at work in the ancient wood, this should not have surprise me. There be magic in them there trees and Kath Middleton evoked it in this moving modern day tale of good vs evil and personal sacrifice.
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  • Sylvia
    5.0 out of 5 stars I absolutely loved this story.
    Reviewed in Canada on July 14, 2018
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    I didn't want this amazing story to end but I couldn't wait to know what happened.
    I could picture everything that happened in the Green Wood. The characters were believable especially the children, the story well written and the plot really kept my interest from the first page to the last. Thanks Kath for a wonderful reading experience. I will have this book on my mind for a very long time to come.
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  • Livia Sbarbaro
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sssh...If you go down to The Green Wood today...A beautiful ,Mystical story..
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2018
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    Twelve year old Sylvie lives with her brother and her parents in a village in the middle of a forest .The forest is cares for by the Grasen Corparation , the man in charge is a vicious, greedy ,selfish man Paul Gradan who has a team that he leads by fear...From an early age Sylvie has been warned by her mother never to venture into the Green Wood...children that have gone there before have dissapeared...but Sylvie with a mind of her own one day decided to go there ...What Sylvie sees and experiences she tells only her cousin Erik..At first Erik who is older thinks it's all in her imagination...Until the day he goes along with Sylvie...but what happened to the missing children? This story is set over eighteen years...going to the point where Erik now a man can perhaps right some wrongs...and make changes...This is a beautiful though sometimes spooky story of a young girl who in her innocent years knows right from wrong ...of humankind at its very worse and a boy who becomes a man through the darkest moment of his life...and all set in a place that is mystical...a precious secret place...where those who enter and are enveloped in secrets that must only be told to the chosen..A beautiful story with dark secrets...Read in one sitting ...
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  • Ayladen
    5.0 out of 5 stars A special book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2019
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    Very good it was too. It was the first book I've read of hers, and the writing flows beautifully. Another reviewer wrote is was enchanting, and they're right; not too much crime, except maybe against trees.

    If you'd like a gentle book which you'll struggle to leave but you'll be involved deeply with likeable characters, this is for you!
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  • Joyce Rigg
    5.0 out of 5 stars Oh Wow!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 9, 2022
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    What a beautiful story. I really didn't want it to end even though there would clearly be nothing more to say. It made me happy, angry and sad, sometimes all at once. I have enjoyed all of Kath Middleton's books but this is, without doubt my favourite.
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