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A HUNGER OF THORNS
Set in a deeply immersive world where magic is produced in factories and sweatshops, this is a YA fantasy about Maude, whose magic has dried up, who goes in search of her best friend, Odette, in the wild and dangerous Sticklegrass Wood.
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 magicand her best friend.
These days, magic is toothless, reduced to glamour patches and psychic energy drinks found in supermarkets and shopping malls. Odette has always hungered for forbidden, dangerous magic, and two weeks ago she went searching for it. Now she's missing, and everyone says she's dead. Everyone except Maude.
Storytelling has always been Maude's gift, so she knows all about girls who get lost in the woods. She's sure she can find Odette inside the ruins of Sicklehurst, an abandoned power plant built over an ancient magical foresta place nobody else seems to remember is there. The danger is, no one knows what remains inside Sicklehurst, either. And every good story is sure to have a monster.
Award-winning author Lili Wilkinson weaves a spellbinding tale of female friendship, and the monsters every girl must face.
LA Hunger of Thorns is set in the world of Lili's 2017 Aurealis Award shortlisted YA fantasy short story, "Oona Underground," and she was awarded the State Library of Victoria Children's Literature Fellowship to research the novel.
Lili is the award-winning author of thirteen novels published in Australia, including?Scatterheart,?Pink, Green Valentine, and The Boundless Sublime (published here with Capstone's Switch Press in 2018).?Pink?also published in the US (HarperCollins) in 2011, and was an ALA Stonewall Honor book. John Green said of Pink:?"This fun, razor-sharp, and moving novel reminds us that pinklike loveis a many-splendored thing. Read it. It might just change your life." Lili has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne.
These days, magic is toothless, reduced to glamour patches and psychic energy drinks found in supermarkets and shopping malls. Odette has always hungered for forbidden, dangerous magic, and two weeks ago she went searching for it. Now she's missing, and everyone says she's dead. Everyone except Maude.
Storytelling has always been Maude's gift, so she knows all about girls who get lost in the woods. She's sure she can find Odette inside the ruins of Sicklehurst, an abandoned power plant built over an ancient magical foresta place nobody else seems to remember is there. The danger is, no one knows what remains inside Sicklehurst, either. And every good story is sure to have a monster.
Award-winning author Lili Wilkinson weaves a spellbinding tale of female friendship, and the monsters every girl must face.
LA Hunger of Thorns is set in the world of Lili's 2017 Aurealis Award shortlisted YA fantasy short story, "Oona Underground," and she was awarded the State Library of Victoria Children's Literature Fellowship to research the novel.
Lili is the award-winning author of thirteen novels published in Australia, including?Scatterheart,?Pink, Green Valentine, and The Boundless Sublime (published here with Capstone's Switch Press in 2018).?Pink?also published in the US (HarperCollins) in 2011, and was an ALA Stonewall Honor book. John Green said of Pink:?"This fun, razor-sharp, and moving novel reminds us that pinklike loveis a many-splendored thing. Read it. It might just change your life." Lili has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne.
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Published 2023-04-18 by Delacorte |