PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
A former academic and adjunct, Alix E. Harrow is now a full-time writer living in Virginia with her husband and their semi-feral toddlers. In 2019 she won a Hugo Award for her short fiction and published her first novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January.
An Amazon Editor's Pick! A Goodreads Most Anticipated Summer Read! A SIBA 2023 Southern Book Prize Finalist! A Paste Magazine Best New Fantasy of 2022! A lively, engaging fairy-tale retelling perfect for devouring in a single sitting. --Kirkus Reviews Series fans and lovers of fractured fairy tales will find plenty to hold their attention. --Publishers Weekly Readers who love stories that twist narratives into knots will fall for Harrow's fractured fairy tale --Library Journal Zinnia is a wonderfully unique figure in the long tradition of bibliofantasy: a reluctant heroine whose superpower doesn't derive from spindles or mirrors, but from skillfully deconstructing the very stories she's in. --Locus Praise for A Spindle Splintered An NPR Best Book of 2021 Shortlisted For the 2022 Hugo Award 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, bestselling author of the Winternight trilogy An exceptional heroine, smart writing, and a winning plot. --Nancy Pearl It's funny, sharp, queer, and deeply loves its source material...This novella pushes against the hopelessness of inevitability; it dares us to believe in sympathetic magic; it tells us we're connected through story. It might dent your heart a little, but it's good fun. --NPR Like Into the Spider-Verse for Disney princesses, A Spindle Splintered is a delightful mash-up featuring Alix E. Harrow's trademark beautiful prose and whip-smart characters. --Mike Chen, author of Here and Now and Then A wonderfully imaginative, and Queer as hell, tale for those who wish to be the authors of their own stories. --Kalynn Bayron, author of Cinderella is Dead This is a self-aware, empowered riff on Sleeping Beauty that manages to be thrilling, funny, smart, and sweet. --Sarah Pinsker, Nebula Award-winning author of A Song for a New Day Alix Harrow takes traditional fairy tales, turns them inside out, then upside down, and uses them to kick ass. Brava! --Ellen Klages, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea and Passing Strange Harrow creates a lush and magical world with well-developed characters who are easy to love and root for. --School Library Journal, starred review Themes of female friendship, female strength, and female independence leave good feels behind, not to mention some laugh-out-loud bits...This fairy tale-superhero movie mashup is pure entertainment. --Kirkus Reviews Best-selling author Harrow revives and rejuvenates the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale with a feminist twist in her latest... Harrow uses her excellent skill as a storyteller to give agency back to the passive princess. --Booklist Accompanied by Arthur Rackham's original illustrations, this quick read is a must for fairy-tale readers. --Buzzfeed, Best Books of October List
