95bFM's Loose Reads: A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion / by Time Out Bookstore

Back into Level 3, Jenna reviews Una Mannion’s A Crooked Tree from the shop.

With an instantly enticing premise - a harried mother pulls her car over and demands her young child out to walk home. It’s cold, dark and far away from their home in the mountains. This act sets off a series of events that will change the lives of a family.

Told through the eyes of 15 year old Libby, this is literary fiction that’s part mystery, part coming of age. This is smart and surprising character novel.