Review: Lisa - Independent (2024)

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What is the story of Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate about? ›

In this emotional and enveloping novel, Lisa Wingate traces the story of children abandoned by the law and the battle to see justice done. Amid times of deep conflict over who owns the land and its riches, Ollie and Val traverse the rugged and beautiful terrain, each leaving behind one life in search of another.

The true story of Kate Barnard, her 1909 investigation of bizarre reports of “elf children living in a hollow tree,” and her eventual discovery of the children's true identity inspired the events in Shelterwood.

The shelterwood method is a silvicultural approach through which a new generation of trees is established naturally under the shelter of older trees by a series of partial cuttings intended to: stimulate seed production. create favorable seedbed conditions on the forest floor.

noun. variants or selective logging. : the cutting out of trees that are mature or defective, or of inferior kinds to encourage the growth of the remaining trees in a forest or wood.

Lisa Wingate is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours, which has sold more than three million copies and been translated into over forty languages worldwide.

Famuyiwa's first feature film, The Wood is a semi-autobiographical account of his upbringing in Inglewood. Working at the Beverly Hills Niketown while formulating the script, Famuyiwa wanted his first film to be reminiscent of his family and his friends.

Is The Poisonwood Bible a true story? Sandy The author says the historical events and figures are true to the best of her research; the story of the family is purely fictional.

This House of Grief is a 2014 non-fiction book by Helen Garner. Subtitled "The story of a murder trial", its subject matter is the murder conviction of a man accused of driving his car into a dam resulting in the deaths of his three children in rural Victoria, Australia, and the ensuing trials.

The play is driven by the desire of the middle-aged James Callifer to discover exactly what happened to him in the family potting shed as a boy. Returning home uninvited for the funeral of his rationalist father, James finds a thick veil drawn over his past.

THE NAPPING HOUSE is the simple, yet engaging story of a napping house, where a granny lies sound asleep and snoring on her cozy bed. Soon she is joined by a dreaming child, who lies right on top of the snoring granny. As the story progresses, animals are added to the sleepy people on the cozy bed.

What is the book Shelter Mountain about? ›

Shelter Mountain is the second book in the Virgin River series about a small town with an even smaller population. Ex-marine, John “Preacher” Middleton, provides shelter in more ways than one for an abused wife and her three-year-old son on the run from an abusive ex.