melissa albert

<p>The Hazel Wood</p>

<p>One of The Observer's Best Children's Books of 2018!</p>

<p>Fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and The Children of Blood and Bone have been getting lost in The Hazel Wood...</p>

<p>"The Hazel Wood kept me up all night. I had every light burning and the covers pulled tight around me as I fell completely into the dark and beautiful world within its pages. Terrifying, magical, and surprisingly funny, it's one of the very best books I've read in years". -Jennifer Niven, author of All The Bright Places</p>

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<p>Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels.</p>

<p>But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate - the Hazel Wood - Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.</p>

<p>Her mother is stolen, by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world from her grandmother's stories.</p>

<p>Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: STAY AWAY FROM THE HAZEL WOOD.</p>

<p>To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began . . .</p>

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<p>"This book will be your next obsession. Welcome to the Hazel Wood, where bad luck is a living thing, princesses are doomed, and every page contains a wondrously terrible adventure - it's not safe inside these pages, but once you enter, you may never want to leave." - Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval</p>

<p>"Realism and fantasy blue in this strange and bewitching tale" The Observer</p>

<p>Melissa Albert has created a world as dark, twisted and magical as Alice in Wonderland or Harry Potter. Will you escape the Hazel Wood?</p>

<p>Our Crooked Hearts</p>

<p>'I couldn't put it down' Karen M. McManus

'Every line reads like an incantation' V.E. Schwab</p>

<p>SECRETS. LIES. SUPER-BAD CHOICES. WITCHCRAFT. This is Our Crooked Hearts - a gripping mystery crossed with a pitch-dark fantasy from Melissa Albert, global bestselling author of The Hazel Wood.</p>

<p>In our family, we keep our magic close, but our secrets closer . . .</p>

<p>Ivy's summer kicks off with a series of disturbing events. As unnatural offerings appear on her doorstep, she's haunted by fragmented memories from her childhood, suggesting there's more to her mother, Dana, than meets the eye.</p>

<p>Dana's tale starts the year she turns sixteen, when she embarks on a major fling with the supernatural. Too late she realizes that the powers she's playing with are also playing with her.</p>

<p>Years after it began, Ivy and Dana's shared story will come down to a reckoning between a mother, a daughter and the dark forces they never should have messed with.</p>

<p>'Electrifyingly brilliant' Katherine Webber

'Riveting' Angeline Boulley</p>