To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: STAY AWAY FROM THE HAZEL WOOD. Her mother is stolen away - by a figure who claims to come from 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 strange bad luck biting at their heels.īut 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.
Until the year I turned seventeen and Althea died in the Hazel Wood. More than simply a space lined with shelves, Harry Hartog is a meeting place between the worlds found inside books and the world around. The narrator calls this person her grandmother and explains that she and her mother, Ella, have been living on the road for years. We didn't even have the chance to stand still. The novel begins with an excerpt from Vanity Fair explaining the mystery behind the author of a book called Tales from the Hinterlands named Althea Proserpine. spring, Bowling Green State University 3.1K views, 42 likes, 25 loves, 75 comments, 17 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Bowling Green State University: Join us as we celebrate our spring 2023. We didn't have the luxury of being nostalgic. My mum and I lived like vagrants, staying with friends til our welcome ore through at the elbows, perching in precarious places, then moving on.
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