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The Silver Bough

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Quercus Publishing, Jul 5, 2012 - Fiction - 320 pages
Appleton is a small town nestled on the coast of Scotland. Though it was once famous for the apples it produced, these days it's a shadow of its former self. But in a hidden orchard a golden apple dangles from a silver bough, an apple believed lost for ever. The apple is part of a legend, promising either eternal happiness to the young couple who eat from it secure in their love - or a curse, for those who take its gift for granted. Now, as the town teeters on the edge of decline, the old rituals have been forgotten and the mists are rolling in. And in the mist, something is stirring...

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User Review  - Skye - Goodreads

Great premise, but lacked the execution needed to live up to it. Pedestrian writing and no real sense of plot development or the mysterious atmosphere it needed to build. I don't understand why the ... Read full review

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User Review  - Robert - Goodreads

A slow burner of a novel, set on a peninsula at the Scottish coast. One by one, a number of characters are drawn there, each seemingly driven by loss of some sort. Except the librarian. Then, this ... Read full review

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About the author (2012)

Lisa Tuttle was born and raised in Texas, but moved to Britain in the 1980s. She now lives with her writer husband and their daughter on the side of a Scottish loch. She has written more than a dozen fantasy, science fiction and horror novels.

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