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 happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds,
with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate.
