Eliza Granville

Powerful, heartbreaking, heart-racing, terrifying . . .  It is impossible not to find yourself racing through the pages

Atmospheric and beautifully written. Gretel and the Dark will be one of the best books of 2014

Dark and intriguing . . .  a highly clever, original book

A back-and-forth tale of secrets and imagination, a thoroughly engaging journey into the darkest corners of humanity

As dark and twisting as the Black Forest . . . forbidding, secretive, richly historical, this is a gripping novel that will leave you guessing until the end

This combination of history, mystery and fairy tale makes for engrossing and irresistible reading - right up to the ultimately redemptive final twist

Grips and shakes the reader from beginning to end. Like so many fairy tales, nothing is what it seems and attention must be paid for the greatest rewards

Wow. It's dark indeed, but within that darkness is a redemptive story, as beautiful as it is haunting. Deeply, achingly satisfying

Deserves to be placed alongside other greats of the genre such as The Reader and The Boy in Striped Pyjamas. I urge you to read it.

Extraordinary. Granville's writing and world building are beautiful.

Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum, thin, head shaved, she claims to have no name - to be, in fact, not even human. Intrigued, Breuer determines to fathom the roots of her disturbance. 
 
Years later, in Germany, we meet Krysta. Krysta's Papa is busy working in the infirmary with the 'animal people', so little Krysta plays alone, lost in the stories of Hansel and Gretel, the Pied Piper, and more. And then the real world becomes as frightening as any fairy tale . . .

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Praise for Gretel and the Dark

Powerful, heartbreaking, heart-racing, terrifying . . . It is impossible not to find yourself racing through the pages

Atmospheric and beautifully written. Gretel and the Dark will be one of the best books of 2014

Dark and intriguing . . . a highly clever, original book

Powerful, heartbreaking, heart-racing, terrifying . . . It is impossible not to find yourself racing through the pages

Atmospheric and beautifully written. Gretel and the Dark will be one of the best books of 2014

Dark and intriguing . . . a highly clever, original book

Powerful, heartbreaking, heart-racing, terrifying . . . It is impossible not to find yourself racing through the pages

Atmospheric and beautifully written. Gretel and the Dark will be one of the best books of 2014

Dark and intriguing . . . a highly clever, original book

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