When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. “A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales.” -Katherine Arden Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined.
Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate.Downloading ebooks to ipad from amazon A Spindle Splintered (English literature) ePub iBook Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia's last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one.
"Amy Landon's lively narration unites present-day Ohio and Perceforest, a fairy-tale realm, in this immersive reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty universe." - AudioFile Magazine
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