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  • Published: 18 August 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804999806
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $28.00

A Dream of Trees



The door never changes, but the rooms behind it do.

Bonsai artist Shiori Ametsuchi never knows where the door will lead her next. All she knows is that whoever she finds in these rooms will be dead before she leaves.

With no memory of her past, Shiori has been thrust into a life of walking through a mysterious door and visiting people in their last moments – guiding them through fragments of past, present and possibility, before they slip away.

But now, Shiori is running out of time herself.

Accompanied by Aiden, a man who will be dead by morning, Shiori races through shifting, dreamlike worlds to uncover the truth of her own past. Because to die without knowing who you are is to be lost forever.

And some doors, once opened, can never be closed.

  • Published: 18 August 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804999806
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $28.00

About the author

Samantha Sotto Yambao

Samantha Sotto Yambao is a professional daydreamer, aspiring time traveller, and speculative fiction writer based in Manila. She is the author of Before Ever After, Love and Gravity, A Dream of Trees, and The Beginning of Always. Water Moon, her latest novel and UK debut, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.

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