num_pages: 359
description: Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alices life on the road always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alices 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 grandmothers 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 beganand where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.
language: English
title: The Hazel Wood
publisher: Flatiron Books