Creeping Beauty

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Portes is the bestselling novelist of two critically lauded adult novels, Hick , her debut, which was made into a feature film starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Alec Baldwin, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, and Juliette Lewis, and Bury This . Her first novel for young adult readers, Anatomy of a Misfit , was called “perfection in book form” by Teen Vogue . Her other YA novels include The Fall of Butterflies and Liberty: The Spy Who (Kind of) Liked Me. Andrea Portes’s spooky, timeless middle grade debut is Henry & Eva and the Castle on the Cliff. Andrea grew up on the outskirts of Lincoln, Nebraska. Later, she attended Bryn Mawr College. Currently she lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Sandy Tolan, their son, Wyatt, and their dog, Rascal. You can visit her online at www.andreaportes.squarespace.com. Klappentext 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 hope some prince will grant her a happy ending. Then Bitsy pricks her finger on a spindle and falls 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. Zusammenfassung 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.  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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Portes, Portes Andrea
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 13
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2023
• EAN: 9780062422477
• ISBN: 978-0-06-242247-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Girls & Women, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations, People & places (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy romance, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Science fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories, Interest age: from c 12 years, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, Children’s / Teenage: Anthologies, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Girls & Women *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations *, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Contemporary and urban fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Romance and love stories