The Hazel Wood
$32.42
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2018
Summary
A bewitching debut YA thriller crossed with the darkest of fairytales.
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. 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.
Her mother is stolen away by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141388663 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141388668 |
| Author: | Melissa Albert |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 24mm |
| Series: | The Hazel Wood |
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Bewitching
MAGICAL, MESMERISING AND INVENTIVE. – Karen McManus, bestselling author of One of Us is Lying
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
Thoroughly, creepily captivating, with surprises I never saw coming! Such a refreshing and beautifully written inversion of the classic fairytale-inspired story. – Kristin Cashore, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of the Graceling Realm series
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
A WINDING, CREEPY, INSIDIOUSLY DELICIOUS NOVEL. UTTERLY SPECTACULAR – Melinda Salisbury, bestselling author of The Sin Eater’s Daughter
THIS BOOK NEEDS A WARNING LABEL. CAUTION: SINGLE-SITTING READ. Once you start, you cannot stop. – Alana, Goodreads Reviewer (5 stars)
If you like DARKNESS and MURDER, strong family ties and light romance, you should probably get ready for this book to mess you up in the best way possible. – Gaby, Goodreads Reviewer (5 stars)
IMAGINE BEING ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE TO READ HARRY POTTER … That’s how it feels to read The Hazel Wood in manuscript form.It’s Inception + The Magicians + Alice in Wonderland + Night Film, plus humor and warmth and heart. – Eb, Goodreads Reviewer (5 stars)
With dark fairy tale elements woven into a thrilling story, The Hazel Wood had me under its spell from beginning to end. Magic crackled on every page. – Kate Ormand, author of The Wanderers
A beautiful, terrifying, astonishing and strange story that reads as though Angela Carter has been sucked into a Grimm fairy tale, this book is a wise and wonderful read for fairy tale fans. – Robin Stevens, author of the Murder Most Unladylike series
About The Author
Melissa Albert
Melissa Albert is the New York Times and indie bestselling author of the Hazel Wood series (The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, Tales from the Hinterland) and a former bookseller and YA lit blogger. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and included in the New York Times list of Notable Children’s Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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