From the Bookshelf of Aussie Readers…

[close] Now a major motion picture - opening nationally on 30 September 2010. After the sudden death of 8-year-old Simone’s father, her mother Dawn is left to raise her and her brothers alone. As their mother succumbs to sorrow, the children are left struggling with their own unhappiness and loss. Then Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn. She’s convinced her father speaks to her through the leaves of her favourite tree and he’s come back to protect them. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts a relationship with George, the plumber, called in to remove the tree’s troublesome roots. As the branches of the tree start to infiltrate the house, the family is forced to make an agonising decision. But have they left it too late?