Meet Local Author Robert Williams

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Meet best-selling author Robert Williams.

Robert Williams grew up in Clitheroe, Lancashire and currently lives in Manchester. His first novel, Luke and Jon, won a Betty Trask Award, was translated into seven languages and called 'a hugely impressive debut' in the Daily Telegraph. He has worked in a secondary school library, as a bookseller for Waterstones, and has written and released music under the name The Library Trust.

Into the Trees

Harriet Norton won't stop crying.
Her parents, Ann and Thomas, are close to insanity and only one thing will help. Mysteriously, their infant daughter will only calm down when she's under the ancient trees of Bleasdale Forest.
The Nortons sell their town-house and set up home in an isolated barn, secluded deep in the forest. They are finally approaching peace, when one night a group of masked men comes through the trees, ready to upend their lives. With their new-found security under threat, the Nortons desperately try to recover what they've lost - risking family, friendships and love in the process.

Into the Trees tells the story of four people who find themselves drawn to the forest, as their lives intertwine in dramatic and unexpected ways. Prize-winning author Robert Williams lays bare their emotional lives, in a novel about love and fear, family and desire, and the search for sanctuary in the middle of chaos

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