Kristin Cashore, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of the Graceling Realm series This book will be your next obsession. Jennifer Niven Thoroughly, creepily captivating, with surprises I never saw coming! Such a refreshing and beautifully written inversion of the classic fairytale-inspired story. Terrifying, magical, and surprisingly funny, it's one of the very best books I've read in years. 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. Most of our images are sourced automatically, so the book cover shown might be different to the edition we have in stock. This is a used book in very good condition, meaning that it shows only minor signs of wear and has no significant damage.

To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began-and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: 'Stay away from the Hazel Wood.'Īlice has long steered clear of her grandmother's cultish fans.

But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away-by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Welcome to Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood-the fiercely stunning New York Times bestseller with seven starred reviews everyone is raving about Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels.

Into the hazel wood