Control the story, control the world...

  Nesta believes in the fairy tales - the true
  stories of powerful magical women who shaped and ruled the world
  decades ago.


  But the world has changed since then, and now, she is forbidden
  from wandering too far from the isolated woodland cottage where
  she lives with her grandmother. Nesta longs more than anything to
  see the city that lies beyond the forest, and when her
  grandmother is abducted, she gets her chance, journeying there in
  the hope of rescuing her.

But once there, she is horrified to see her grandmother's warnings were true: girls are forced to wear certain clothes and punished if they don't behave in certain ways. The city's Authorities have rewritten history, replacing the fairytale heroines with weak girls who must rely on men.

Worse still - everyone believes this is how the world has always
  been.


  Only Nesta knows the truth. But truth is a dangerous
  thing, and suddenly she finds herself a target. Can she evade
  the Authorities long enough to rescue her grandmother and liberate
  everyone else, bringing magic back into the world?





  The Handmaid's Tale meets The Brother's Grimm in
  this thrilling dystopian fantasy

  A feminist fairy tale retelling which will make you rethink traditional
  stories forever

  YA debut from Polly Crosby, the much-loved author of Vita
  and the Birds The Unravelling and The Illustrated
  Child

  A stunning cover by Noma Bar, the illustrator of Margaret Atwood's
  book covers