![]() When we join Shy, he’s sneaking out of school and headed to the school’s pond, carrying a rucksack full of rocks. The book centres on a troubled teenager named Shy, who lives at a rural boarding school, named Last Chance, for similarly wayward boys. “There’s something going on in these woods – a palpably strange sense of other people being there.” This is not the story we are here to discuss, but that feeling, of uncanny happenings and haunting echoes, is relevant to the one we are going to talk about: his latest novel, Shy, which is out now. ![]() ![]() But these woods, according to a Google search, are the eighth most haunted in Britain. This seems, as it likely did to Porter at the time, unbelievable. On the side of the tree, freshly carved into the still-oozing bark, was the word “Max”. ![]() “There’s an amazing beech tree, like astonishingly, almost inexplicably huge in the middle of these woods,” he tells me, over Zoom from a London hotel. Last autumn, after finishing his latest book, Max Porter returned to the woods he had visited just before starting that project. ![]()
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