The Hazel Wood
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One of The Observer's Best Children's Books of 2018!
Fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and The Children of Blood and Bone have been getting lost in The Hazel Wood...
"The Hazel Wood kept me up all night. I had every light burning and the covers pulled…
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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.
From Alison's list on fantasy that showcase the power of stories.
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…
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