I’ve kepttrying to find time, in the fortnight since The Trees was published, to post some of the drawings I made whileI was writing it. Time for a fight with my scanner, anda clean-up in Photoshop. I haven’t quite finished yet, but thought I’d post the four whisperers whose picturesappear in the book itself. The others will come a-creeping soon, I promise.

These were just done with pencils and graphite sticks in a tiny, square-shaped sketchbook. For a while I drew one whisperer in there ever...