The Juniper Tree is about a woman with a scar on her face and an illegitimate child. She works in a small antique store and befriends a well-to-do couple. The couple takes a special interest in the woman and her child. Things turn sinister later on and birds and trees do very strange things...this book is kind of a fairy tale. Comyns is one of the great writers of magical realism but no one ever really discusses her in relation to this form. Or at all. ( )