![]() Obsessed with all versions of the classic Sleeping Beauty story – even the Alvin and the Chipmunks episode – Zin knows all the ways Beauties are cursed, and all the ways they could be saved. She graduated high school two years early and studied Folk Studies at Ohio State University, earning her degree in only seven semesters. Diagnosed with a rare disorder that is destined to kill her soon, 20-year-old Zin has been living her life in fast forward. ![]() It isn’t your ordinary Sleeping Beauty story, and Zinnia Gray isn’t your usual sleeping beauty. Product Dimensions - 5.4 H x 8.4 W x 0.6 DĪ Spindle Splintered is the first book of the Fractured Fables series by award-winning author Alix E.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. 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. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. "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 It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. ![]() 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. ![]()
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