![]() ![]() 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. About the Book Albert delivers a fierce, captivating contemporary fantasy about a 17-year-old girl who must venture into the world behind a pitch-dark. 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. We didn't even have the chance to stand still. 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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