The Hazel Wood, A Novel

Resumen del libro

Welcome to The Hazel Wood, Melissa Alberts fierce, captivating contemporary fantasy about a seventeen-year-old girl who must venture into the world behind a pitch-dark, cult-classic collection of fairy tales to save her mother.
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alices life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alices 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 have come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmothers stories are set. Alices only lead on finding her is the message she left behind: 'Stay away from the Hazel Wood.'

Alice has long steered clear of her grandmothers cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the heart of the world where her grandmothers stories began'and find out why her own story went so wrong.

Biografía del autor

MELISSA ALBERT es editora web y editora fundadora del Bx{0026}lt;( x{0026}amp;x{0026}lt;) N Teen Blog. Ha escrito para la editorial x{0026}lt;i McSweeney'sx{0026}lt;/i , para x{0026}lt;i Time Out Chicagox{0026}lt;/i y para otras publicaciones. Melissa se crió en Illinois y ahora vive en Brooklyn (Nueva York). La encontrarás en Twitter: x{0026}lt;a href="https://twitter.com/mimi albert?lang=es" mimi albertx{0026}lt;/a