Book Six explores the uncanny, the surreal, the dark reaches of the imagination and the space between the ordinary world and the folklore and superstition that hangs around in the peripheries of daily life. In the case of some of these tales, there is almost no difference, both worlds are one and the same. In Carly Holmes' 'Heartwood', a mother with branches for arms and bark for skin struggles to retain this strange affliction and is betrayed...