02-06-2020 Fairy tale: The hazel-branch - Grimm. The Night Country is the highly anticipated sequel to Melissa Albert’s beloved debut The Hazel Wood. “Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood is an elegant dark fairy tale, full of the power of story. It’s creepy and gorgeous, and I loved every word.” —Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians “Elegant, ethereal, and beautifully brutal, The Hazel Wood is a fairy tale worth falling for. “Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood is an elegant dark fairy tale, full of the power of story. It’s creepy and gorgeous, and I loved every word.” —Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians “Elegant, ethereal, and beautifully brutal, The Hazel Wood is a fairy tale worth falling for. It's creepy and gorgeous, and I loved every word." 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. --Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians "Elegant, ethereal, and beautifully brutal, The Hazel Wood is a fairy tale worth falling for. Welcome to Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood—the fiercely stunning New York Times bestseller everyone is raving about!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. The Hazel Wood kind of gives me the same whimsical, lyrical vibe but it is much more easier to follow. The New York Times bestseller! The Hazel Wood is a fairy tale about fairy tales. The New York Times bestseller! “The Hazel Wood” is the name of Althea Proserpine’s estate. The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert, $14, Amazon. It’s creepy and gorgeous, and I loved every word.” —Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians “Elegant, ethereal, and beautifully brutal, The Hazel Wood is a fairy tale worth falling for. “Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood is an elegant dark fairy tale, full of the power of story. Then his mother came to him, looked at him full of gladness, and said, Hast thou laid thyself down to sleep, my child? In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors of The Hazel Wood. “Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood is an elegant dark fairy tale, full of the power of story. 02-06-2020 Fairy tale: The hazel-branch - Grimm. "Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood is an elegant dark fairy tale, full of the power of story. It’s creepy and gorgeous, and I loved every word.” —Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians “Elegant, ethereal, and beautifully brutal, The Hazel Wood is a fairy tale worth falling for. It’s creepy and gorgeous, and I loved every word.” —Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians “Elegant, ethereal, and beautifully brutal, The Hazel Wood is a fairy tale worth falling for. This is a dream of a book I cannot recommend highly enough. One afternoon the Christ-child had laid himself in his cradle-bed and had fallen asleep. Althea has one book to her name, a collection of dark fairy tales: “Tales from the Hinterland.” In it, she writes like a war reporter sending back notices from the field of battle. Perfect for fans of the film Pan's Labyrinth, Lev Grossman's Magicians trilogy, and Kelly Link's short stories, The Hazel Wood … Then his mother came to him, looked at him full of gladness, and said, Hast thou laid thyself down to sleep, my child? One afternoon the Christ-child had laid himself in his cradle-bed and had fallen asleep. “Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood is an elegant dark fairy tale, full of the power of story. In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors of The Hazel Wood. The Night Country is the highly anticipated sequel to Melissa Albert’s beloved debut The Hazel Wood. It is a dark novel about dark things but its rooted in its humanity and the humanity of its characters.