“Insidiously beautiful, this is the opposite of escapist fantasy it is a story about the imagination’s power to loose atrocity into the (mostly) law-abiding confines of the real.” - The Guardian (Best Children’s Book of the Year) “An original and imaginative fairy tale: thrilling, fascinating, and poignant in equal measure.” - Entertainment Weekly (Best YA Book of the Year) It’s a captivating debut.” - The New York Times Book Review (Notable Children’s Book) “Albert seamlessly combines contemporary realism with fantasy, blurring the edges in a way that highlights that place where stories and real life convene, where magic contains truth, and the world as it appears is false, where just about anything can happen, particularly in the pages of a good book. 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.ĭon’t miss the New York Times bestselling sequel to The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, out now, or Tales from the Hinterland, coming January 12, 2021!īank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year 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. 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. Welcome to Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood- the fiercely stunning New York Times bestseller everyone is raving about!

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