From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Misfit comes a subversive and feminist take on Sleeping Beauty, sure to appeal to fans of Damsel and To Kill a Kingdom.Â
The dark and deadly world of Heartless meets the empowering twist of Cruel Beauty in this thrilling, unpredictable, multigenre retelling of one of the most beloved fairy tales: where instead of falling asleep to await her prince, this sleeping beauty finally wakes up.
Bitsy is no one's ideal princess.
She's heard it all: that it's a shame she's so plain, so lacking in grace. That the best thing for her to do is simply wait (and wait some more) and hope some prince will grant her a happy ending.
Then Bitsy pricks her finger on a spindle and falls down, down, down.
Into a world where cutthroats and con artists are more common than curtsies. Where no one ages and everyone is beautiful. Where an inscrutable evil rests at its core.
A land where Bitsy's fate and her future are solely in her own hands-and neither are what she expects.
ISBN: | 9780062422477 |
Publication date: | 28th September 2023 |
Author: | Andrea Portes |
Publisher: | HarperTeen an imprint of HarperCollins |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 348 pages |
Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Self-awareness and self-esteem Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories |