Imprint: Bedford Square Publishers
Category: Fiction: general and literary
When a panther attacks a family of homesteaders in the remote hill country of Texas, it leaves a young girl traumatised and scarred, and her mother dead. Samantha is determined to find and kill the animal and avenge her mother, and her half-brother Benjamin, helpless to make her see sense, joins her quest.
Dragged into the panther hunters’ crusade by the force and purity of Samantha’s desire for revenge are a charismatic outlaw, a haunted, compassionate preacher, and an aged but relentless tracker dog. As the members of this unlikely posse hunt the giant panther, they in turn are pursued by a hapless, sadistic soldier with a score to settle. And Benjamin can only try to protect his sister from her own obsession, and tell her story in his uniquely vivid voice.
The breathtaking saga of a steadfast girl’s revenge against an implacable and unknowable beast, The Which Way Tree is a timeless tale full of warmth and humour, testament to the power of adventure and enduring love.
Category: Fiction: general and literary
RRP: £9.99
ISBN: 9781835010990
Published: February 15, 2024
Extent: 272 pages
RRP: £6.99
ISBN: 9781835011003
Published: February 15, 2024
‘A ripping adventure…Benjamin is a boyishly charming chronicler of the crazed hunt…Samantha’s unfinished business leads the makeshift hunters through a gauntlet of disasters to the novel’s show-stopping finale’
Wall Street Journal
‘A commendable and very readable addition to the tale-spinning tradition and its beautiful use of language’
The New York Times