The Hazel Wood

Beschreibung

_____<BR><BR>One of The Observer's Best Children's Books of 2018! <BR><BR>Fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and The Children of Blood and Bone have been getting lost in The Hazel Wood...<BR><BR>"The Hazel Wood kept me up all night. I had every light burning and the covers pulled tight around me as I fell completely into the dark and beautiful world within its pages.

Terrifying, magical, and surprisingly funny, it's one of the very best books I've read in years". -Jennifer Niven, author of All The Bright Places<BR><BR>-----<BR><BR>Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. <BR><BR>But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate - the Hazel Wood - Alice learns how bad her luck can really get. <BR><BR>Her mother is stolen, by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world from her grandmother's stories. <BR><BR>Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: STAY AWAY FROM THE HAZEL WOOD.<BR><BR>To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began . . . <BR><BR>-----<BR><BR>"This book will be your next obsession.

Welcome to the Hazel Wood, where bad luck is a living thing, princesses are doomed, and every page contains a wondrously terrible adventure - it's not safe inside these pages, but once you enter, you may never want to leave." - Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval <BR><BR>"Realism and fantasy blue in this strange and bewitching tale" The Observer<BR><BR>Melissa Albert has created a world as dark, twisted and magical as Alice in Wonderland or Harry Potter.

Will you escape the Hazel Wood?

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