The girl’s angry ghost holds a grudge that Isola doesn’t understand. The boundary between her two worlds becomes even harder to negotiate when she finds a dead girl swinging from a birdcage in the woods. Girls at her conservative private school think she has mental issues like her mother, and her father tells her time and again she is too old for imaginary friends. This secret realm affects her real-world relationships with her best friend Grape and her new crush Edgar. Endangered unicorns, faeries and zombie rabbits roam the woods around her house, while seven loyal brother-princes protect her from the dangers of her daily life. The novel follows Isola Wilde, a quirky heroine with Skittle-coloured hair who lives in a fairytale world no one else can see. Though clearly inspired by a range of fairytales, ghost stories, literary works and poems, Near uses her affection for these genres to develop an entirely new fantasy world, one where she can explore the pitfalls of young adulthood. Allyse Near’s Fairytales for Wilde Girlsis a refreshingly original debut.
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