Menna van Praag

Child of Earth & Sky by Menna van Praag is the third dazzling real-world fantasy that concludes the story of the power-wielding Sisters Grimm. This tale combines contemporary storytelling with a modern fairytale to deliver a thrilling narrative of life, death, and motherhood. Born of bright-white wishing and black-edged desire, the Grimm girls each command a single element and wield...

A tour de force of fairy tale and imagination, The Sisters Grimm is a magical tale of life, death and sisterhood that brings to mind Beautiful Creatures, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and Stardust. Absorbing and beautiful - a great achievement. - BRIDGET COLLINS, bestselling author of The Binding There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of sisters Grimm on Earth. You...

The Dress Shop of Dreams by Menna van Praag unfolds its magic in Etta's tiny dress shop, located on a seemingly ordinary Cambridge street. However, the vibrant racks of beaded silks and jewel-toned velvets conceal a bewitching power that can awaken a woman's deepest desires. Cora Sparks, Etta's granddaughter, has spent her life sheltered within the confines of the shop...

The Patron Saint of Lost Souls follows the intriguing lives of two women navigating their unique paths in Cambridge. Jude runs a one-of-a-kind antiques shop, where she aids customers in finding the perfect talisman to fulfil their deepest desires. Despite her talent for matchmaking the objects in her shop with those who seek them, Jude's own life is missing the...

The Cambridge University witches have been meeting for as long as the university has been around—over 900 years. They meet mainly to discuss books, though they do so on the roofs of the colleges and drink hot chocolate while up there. The members are limited and selective; only those invited can join. In 2014, this includes Kat (a great spell-caster...

In a forgotten nook of Cambridge, a little shop stands where thousands of sheets of beautiful paper and hundreds of exquisite pens wait for the next person who, with Clara Cohen's help, will express the love, despair, and desire they feel to correspondents alive, estranged, or dead. Clara knows better than most the power a letter can have to turn...

In Alba Ashby's hour of need, she finds herself on the doorstep of number 11 Hope Street, a house that has stood quietly in Cambridge for nearly two hundred years. But this is no ordinary house. Its walls are steeped in the wisdom of past residents including Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, and Agatha Christie. Alba accepts an invitation to stay...

The Cambridge University witches meet every month on the roof of one of the city's many colleges to discuss books among other things, but lately the ties that bind them have begun to unravel. Amandine, professor of art history and empath, has the power to feel the emotions of those around her. Lately though, she might have wished for her...

Child of Earth & Sky, Menna van Praag’s third dazzling real-world fantasy, concludes the story of the power-wielding Sisters Grimm and combines contemporary storytelling with modern fairytale to tell a thrilling story of life, death, and motherhood. Born of bright-white wishing and black-edged desire, the Grimm girls each command a single element and wield it with great power. But a...