6/7/2023 0 Comments The hazel wood bookElla said after Alice’s rescue that he was just a fan using Alice to try to see Althea, but Alice wondered for a few years if the man was actually her unknown father. The novel follows seventeen year old Alice, who has to find her mother by venturing into a supernatural world, Hinterland, where the stories written by her grandmother are set. When Alice was six, a redhaired man in a Blue Buick briefly kidnapped her, claiming he was taking her to see her grandmother. Bad luck seemed to chase Ella and Alice to new landing sites, where they settled hesitantly until the next bout of misfortune uprooted them again. Alice is 17 as the story opens, and she explains her backstory: She and Ella lived largely “like vagrants, staying with friends till our welcome wore though at the elbows, perching in precarious places, then moving on” (3). Ella grew up to become the mother of protagonist Alice. After her publication, Althea raised her daughter, Ella, in a reclusive estate called the Hazel Wood. Alice has spent most of her life moving frequently with her mother, seemingly always on the run from bad things or bad luck, even if she didn’t always totally understand what the bad things were. The story opens with a snippet of a 1987 Vanity Fair article about the main character’s grandmother, Althea Proserpine, an author whose single published book earned her “an odd kind of fame” (1). The Hazel Wood is a contemporary fantasy novel by Melissa Albert which centers on the main character of seventeen-year-old Alice.
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