Ella, Alices mother, spent 14 years at the Hazel Wood estate before leaving with Alice. 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. The entrance to the Hinterland world in another dimension lies in Hazel Wood.
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. Her mother has always forbidden her from having any contact with her grandmother even banning Alice from reading her grandmothers mysterious classic book of pitch black fairy tales, 'Tales from the Hinterland. 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. Opening in modern day, teenage Alice lives a life on the road with her mother, incessantly pursued by bad luck. 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! Read an Excerpt CHAPTER 1 Althea Proserpine is raising her daughter on fairy tales.
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