The title tree in “The Witch Elm,” Irish writer Tana French’s best and most intricately nuanced novel yet, is a mysterious character in its own right. Stately, 200 years old and burned into the ...
“The Witch Elm” By Tana French. Viking, 2018. 509 pages. $28. Good friends, young and hale and full of possibilities, frequently gather at Toby’s family homestead, the Ivy House. They talk and horse ...