Shade of the Tree is a novel by Piers Anthony published in 1986.
Shade of the Tree is a novel in which a tree causes supernatural occurrences in a rural setting.
[1] Dave Langford reviewed Shade of the Tree for White Dwarf #98, and stated that "From Anthony we'd also expect a tidy ending, resolving problems with that inhuman fairness so often found in fairy tales [...] the Tree responsible for interminable forebodings and sinister hallucinations is converted to niceness by a spot of telepathic computer systems analysis.
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