HAZEL WOOD

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s 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 come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.”

Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland 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 world where her grandmother's tales began―and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.

Alice, in varsta de saptesprezece ani, si mama ei au petrecut cea mai mare parte a vietii lui Alice pe drum, intotdeauna cu un pas inaintea ciudatului ghinion muscandu-i la calcai. Dar cand bunica lui Alice, autorul exclusiv al unei carti clasice de basm de basm, moare singura pe mosia ei, Hazel Wood, Alice afla cat de rau poate avea norocul ei: mama ei este furata - de o figura care pretinde ca vine din Hinterland, lumea supranaturala cruda in care sunt puse in scena povestile bunicii ei.