The Beauty of the Wolf: The spellbinding read you don’t want to miss!

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‘Amazing’ Meg Rosoff ‘Extraordinary’ Maggie Alderson ‘What some might call beauty, I find monstrous’ In the age of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth I, Lord Francis Rodermere starts to lay waste to a forest.Furious, the sorceress who dwells there scrawls a curse into the bark of the first oak he fells: A faerie boy will be born to you whose beauty will be your death. Ten years later, Lord Rodermere’s son, Beau is born – and all who encounter him are struck by his great beauty.Meanwhile, many miles away in a London alchemist’s cellar lives Randa – a beast deemed too monstrous to see the light of day.And so begins a timeless tale of love, tragedy and revenge… A stunning retelling of Beauty and the BeastThe Beauty of the Wolf is a historical masterpiece, weaving together the best of fairy tales and mythology. This top literary fiction book is a must-read for fans of fantasy and legends.For fans of Katherine Arden (The Secret Romantic's Book of Magic), Constance Sayers (The Star and the Strange Moon), Stacey Halls (The Familiars), Sonia Velton (The Nightingale's Castle), and Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale). Show more