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Pine by Francine Toon

  Published: 2020, Penguin Genre: Fiction Themes: missing person, witchcraft, Scotland, rural community My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤❤❤ So, this is my recommendation for your holiday read. (You'll thank me for this later!) You know that point on Boxing Day when it is just starting to get dark and you realise it's all over for another year, and you are pretty much done with Christmas now.  You had piccalilli with your cold cuts at lunch, and then remembered too late that pickle wasn't going to mix well with six strawberry creams and the last segments of your chocolate orange.  On top of that, your Nan is telling everyone for the eleventy billionth time that all they had for Christmas in her day was half a walnut and a puncture repair kit, but they were gratefull! This is the point when you need to get away and re-set your brain with a decent gothic spine chiller.  Snuggle down in a quiet corner in your new oversized hoodie and enjoy the much under-rated pleasure of feelin...