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“An original and imaginative fairy tale: thrilling, fascinating, and poignant in equal measure.” - Entertainment Weekly, Best YA Book of the Year A captivating debut.” - The New York Times Book Review, 2018 Notable Children’s Book Albert seamlessly combines contemporary realism with fantasy, blurring the edges in a way that highlights that place where stories and real life convene, where magic contains truth, and the world as it appears is false, where just about anything can happen, particularly in the pages of a good book. “ The Hazel Wood starts out strange and gets stranger, in the best way possible. “Dark, demanding, and delicious.” - Kirkus Reviews Many of them meet tragic or terrifying ends, but all of their stories are compelling ones and will satisfy any reader hungry for some magic in this cold, dark winter.” - The Culturess “ Tales from the Hinterland is filled with strange, creepy stories featuring characters readers of Albert’s previous works will recognize, along with horrifying new tales filled with blood and revenge, and women who want more than what they’re offered by both life and fate. “Enthralling, fantastic, and darkly haunting.highly recommended for fans of powerful short stories, fairy tales, and enchantment.” - YA Books Central Melissa Albert and Althea Proserpine’s stories are bloody and brutal and make the Brothers Grimm feel sugary sweet.” - Tor.com Don’t come into this collection expecting Disney princesses. Now Melissa Albert gifts us with the stories themselves, of Hansa the Traveler, of Twice-Killed Katherine, and of Alice-Three-Times, whose story will perhaps mean the most to readers. “We first heard about the book of fairy tales written by Althea Proserpine in The Hazel Wood, and witnessed the fallout from them in The Night Country. “This inventive, enchanting collection reads like the fairy tales of old, hushed stories passed woman to woman, before the Grimms came and wiped away all the blood.” - Laura Ruby, author of Thirteen Dorways, Wolves Behind Them All I loved these.” - Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble “Lush and deliciously sinister fairytales to be consumed as greedily as Turkish delight or any fairy fruit. “Rich with bloodshed, metamorphosis and inevitable comeuppance, written with the absolute assurance of a master storyteller summoning an audience to the fireside on a winter’s night, Albert’s book is uniquely transporting and discomfiting, a length of shining fabric flecked with glass that sparkles as it cuts.” - The Times Literary Supplement (UK)
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Albert’s rich and tightly focused collection forms the core of the mythology created in her novels, and her fans will be thrilled at this further glimpse into that world.” - Booklist, starred review “The writing is as spare and precise as poetry, connected to the darker, edgier elements of fairy-tale conventions.