THIS BOOK IS AMAZING

The Hazel Wood follows 17-year-old Alice after her mother, Ella, has been kidnapped. Alice’s grandmother is Althea Proserpine, the famous author of Tales from the Hinterland. Althea hasn’t spoken to her daughter in years, or even met her granddaughter. Alice and Ella have always been moving around, desperately trying to outrun the bad luck that supposedly follows them. When the story starts, Ella’s married this rich guy called Harold, and Alice is going to this school called Whitechapel. Alice meets a guy called Ellery [insert a bunch of last names here] Finch, but he goes by Finch. Alice and Finch end up trying to unravel the mystery surrounding Ella’s disappearance and the mystery of Althea Proserpine.

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