SuitabookHumans and the natural world
The story connects human wellbeing with plants and presents a threat to the plant world that also affects people.
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Yarrow Townsend - Author
This is an adventurous nature-centred novel about Orla’s investigation into a disease damaging plants and harming people. It combines magical plant knowledge, travel, friendship and questions about how people can work towards a common good.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is an adventurous nature-centred novel about Orla’s investigation into a disease damaging plants and harming people. It combines magical plant knowledge, travel, friendship and questions about how people can work towards a common good.
The story connects human wellbeing with plants and presents a threat to the plant world that also affects people.
Orla acts independently, sometimes impatiently, while Idris and Ariana help her; characters work together even when their goals do not completely align.
The book includes a character living alone, illness linked to the plant threat, and people dying. These elements may merit a check-in, especially if illness or danger is sensitive for the reader.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: another book-specific source is still needed; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.
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