num_pages: 362
description: A dark distinctive and addictively compelling novel set in fin-de-sicle Vienna and Nazi Germanywith a dizzying final twist.Vienna 1899. Josef Breuercelebrated psychoanalystis about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum thin head shaved she claims to have no name no feelingsto be in fact not even human. Intrigued Breuer determines to fathom the roots of her disturbance.Years later in Germany we meet Krysta. Krystas Papa is busy working in the infirmary with the animal people so little Krysta plays alone lost in the stories of Hansel and Gretel the Pied Piper and more. And when everything changes and the world around her becomes as frightening as any fairy tale Krysta finds her imagination holds powers beyond what she could have ever guessed. . . .Eliza Granville has had a life-long fascination with the enduring quality of fairytales and their symbolism and the idea for Gretel and the Dark was sparked when she became interested in the emphasis placed on these stories during the Third Reich.
language: English
title: Gretel and the Dark
publisher: Hamish Hamilton