- Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Fairy tales, Magic
When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, seventeen-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue Alice's kidnapped mother.
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Classical in form, grave, plot-driven and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Melissa Albert
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Flatiron Books, Macmillan Young Listeners, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781427293534
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