From the much-loved author of Grass and Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, a fabulous story of time travel, murder ... and the revenge of trees.
Sheri Tepper’s gift is to address unflinchingly worst-case futures and confront the reader’s fears head-on. It’s a polemicist’s strategy, invigorating, addictive, sharing the burden of contemplating big issues and the threat they may pose to the world.
In The Family Tree trees suddenly become rampant, growing at a fantastic rate to conquer any spare land, obscure small roads, take over unoccupied rooms in houses – and possibly cause the disappearance of babies, always the fourth (at least) in a family.
Our police officer hero Dora Henry suspects the plague of trees began in the garden of the home she shared until recently with her husband Jared. But meanwhile, Dora is seeking a divorce and investigating the murders of three geneticists who were all working to develop intelligence in other species. And far in the future, when technology has all but vanished, two princes and their followers find themselves on similar quests that will take them back in time – to land in Dora’s new back garden.
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‘A work where wry humour mingles with the gravest of concerns about ecology and the fate of the earth. Tepper has produced another work as witty, charming, deep-down serious and inventive as her classic Beauty, in this fable with an extra edge to it: a thorough-going relevance to our future.’
Locus
‘The worldbuilding is just great. The fantasy world comes alive and becomes more
“real". The real world becomes strange and different. Each step along the way is exciting and fascinating.’
Science Fiction Age
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