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A Hunger of Thorns
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Be swept up in this brilliant, witchy, Victorian Premier's Literary Award-winning tale about forbidden magic and missing girls who don't need handsome princes to rescue them. Perfect for fans of the Serpent & Dove series.
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WINNER: 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Writing for Young Adults
HONOUR BOOK: 2024 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers
SHORTLISTED: 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Young Adult Literature
Selected as one of the Best Young Adult Books for 2023 - Readings Books
'Completely entrancing. I have never read anything like this book. It's full of magic - the real thing. And it's full of feminine power, dark mysteries, and unforgettable characters. The luscious depth of the world-building and the effortless skill with which it is conveyed make me utterly jealous.' - Amie Kaufman
Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls who slayed dragons and saved princes. Then Maude grew up and lost her magic - and her best friend. Storytelling is her only gift that remains.
Odette always hungered for forbidden, dangerous magic, and two weeks ago she went searching for it. Now she's missing, and everyone believes she's dead. Everyone except Maude.
Maude is sure she can find Odette inside the ruins of Sicklehurst, an abandoned power plant built over an ancient magical forest - a place nobody else seems to remember is there. The danger is, nobody knows what remains inside Sicklehurst, either. And every good story is sure to have a monster...
'A lush, spellbinding tale with dangerously enchanting characters, A Hunger of Thorns is filled with gorgeous emotion and sapphic yearning that will leave you breathless.' - CS Pacat
'Maude's quest will take you to deep, dark, festering places and bring you soaring back out into the light.' - Margo Lanagan
'Unlike anything else. Wilkinson creates a whole new kind of magic - enchantments woven from family, from living things, and from the marrow of Story itself.' - Scott Westerfeld
'Wilkinson crafts a lovely fairy tale of childhood fierceness, curiosity, loss, and finding.' - Catherynne M Valente, author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
'This is my kind of fairy tale: visceral and dark, lush and lovely, and filled with feral girls who know how to save themselves. A Hunger of Thorns is a beautiful, ferocious vine that will work its way inside you and linger.' - Kate J Armstrong
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A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson is praised for its enchanting and magical storytelling, involving a deeply immersive world rich with feminine power and dark mysteries. Reviewers laud the book's lush world-building and memorable characters, describing it as a spellbinding tale with stirring emotion and captivating elements. The novel is noted for its blend of visceral fantasy and scientific precision, offering both a gripping journey and a reflection on finding one's true self amidst modern uncertainties.
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ISBN: 9781760526948
Publisher: A&U Children's
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 April 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: A&U Children
Audience: Teenage
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 458g
Pages: 432
About the Author
Lili Wilkinson is the award-winning author of eighteen books for children and teenagers, including After the Lights Go Out, The Erasure Initiative and How To Make A Pet Monster. Lili established the Inky Awards at the Centre for Youth Literature, State Library of Victoria. She has a PhD in Creative Writing, and lives in Melbourne with her partner, child, dog and three chickens.
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