What was the rising action in the book?

The rising action in the novel, The Lie Tree, introduces us to our main character, Faith Sunderly, and her family, as they travel by mail boat to the island of Vane. We learn that Faith is almost fourteen, that her father is a reverend and naturalist, and that the family left Kent after a newspaper article accused her father of being a fraud.

The family is traveling to Vane, so Erasmus (Faith's father) can join an archeological dig. Once they arrive, Erasmus prepares to leave for the excavation site, where she goes through her father's papers and discovers the reason they're on the island. The newspaper not only claimed her father was a fraud, it said that his greatest discovery was actually two fossils joined with glue.

The main setting in the novel's rising action is the island of Vane, which has a small town and a small population. The island has a church, a cemetery, and several shops. There author also describes specific sites, including the house the Sunderly family rents during their stay, and the cave where Erasmus and Faith hid the Mendacity Tree.