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Thornhedge


A Fantasy Novella


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Fairy Tale Retelling,
  • Fae & Fair Folk,
  • Subverted Tropes
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Fairy tales flipped to spotlight the outsider's perspective
  • Unlikely heroines with gentle hearts and odd shapes
  • Curses that are more complicated than they seem
Publisher Description

From New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways.

The very special hardcover edition features a foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.

There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story.

Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland.

Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right?

But nothing with fairies is ever simple.

Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords.

He's heard there's a curse here that needs breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold.

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