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USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow''s A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham''s original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined.

A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales. Katherine Arden

It''s Zinnia Gray''s twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it''s the last birthday she''ll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one.

Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia''s last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happ

A Spindle Splintered

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      Publisher St Martin's Press
      Published 5 October 2021
      ISBN-13 9781250765352
      978-1250765352
      ISBN-10 1250765358

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow''s A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham''s original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined.

      A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales. Katherine Arden

      It''s Zinnia Gray''s twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it''s the last birthday she''ll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one.

      Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia''s last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happ

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