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 h
