A Hot title at the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair
Movie rights to Columbia Pictures
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alicea�TMs life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alicea�TMs grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic 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 a�� by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmothera�TMs stories are set.