Summertide (Paperback)

On the edge of Kottow stands the oddest tree in the land — and one night, without a word of warning, it pulls up its roots and walks away.

Maut Sweetlove has lived in the Tree’s branches her whole life, at home among its squirrels and its quietly odd community of misfits. She’s used to Diggory Stokey the carpenter grumbling about “nowt” and Mother Gantry running the place like a fussy headwoman — she’s not used to the ground moving under her.

The Tree carries them all into a forest lost in the mists of a dream, where something has gone badly wrong: Summer has vanished from the sky, and nobody’s minding the Winter. As the wild magic of the place presses closer, Maut, Diggory, and the rest of the Tree’s odd little family realize they’ll have to find a way to bring Summertide back themselves — or risk being swept away with everything else.

They didn’t ask to be heroes. But home, it turns out, is worth walking a very long way to protect.

A cosy, uplifting, warm-hearted fantasy about found family, wholeness, and hope.