The Hazel Wood

I read The Hazel Wood while writing my own book, and the vibe immediately struck me as similar. It takes the protagonist, Alice, on a journey between our world and a world of dark, original fairytales, where stories are the very fabric of the universe. The more entangled the story becomes in the fairytale world, the more the book itself reads like one...it feels like a dream, with events unfolding unpredictably as we learn the rules of the new world and what the characters from it want. 

What would happen if a fairy tale world spilled over into the real world? Seventeen-year-old Alice gets the answer when she discovers that a book of fairytales her grandmother wrote decades ago might be more than just a book of stories. When her mother is kidnapped by agents of the mysterious Hinterland, Alice must travel with a school friend to The Hazel Wood (her grandmother’s mysterious estate) to rescue her. Exploring themes of family and breaking free of the constraints of one’s lineage, The Hazel Wood is the type of modern fable lovers of fairytales will love to sink their… show more.