The Hazel Wood

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert, read by Rebecca Soler.

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. 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. Her mother is stolen away - by a figure who claims to come from 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.

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

Critics Review

  • MAGICAL, MESMERISING AND INVENTIVE.

    Karen McManus, bestselling author of One of Us is Lying

  • 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

  • Thoroughly, creepily captivating, with surprises I never saw coming! Such a refreshing and beautifully written inversion of the classic fairytale-inspired story.

    Kristin Cashore, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of the Graceling Realm series

  • 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

  • A WINDING, CREEPY, INSIDIOUSLY DELICIOUS NOVEL. UTTERLY SPECTACULAR

    Melinda Salisbury, bestselling author of The Sin Eater's Daughter

  • THIS BOOK NEEDS A WARNING LABEL. CAUTION: SINGLE-SITTING READ. Once you start, you cannot stop.

    Alana, Goodreads Reviewer (5 stars)

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