Menna van Praag
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Distraught over her stalled academic career, Alba is walking through Cambridge, England, and finds herself in front of 11 Hope Street. A beautiful older woman named Peggy greets Alba and invites her to stay, on the house's usual conditions: she has ninety-nine nights to turn her life around. But this is no ordinary house. Past residents -- including Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Parker -- have hung around to help newcomers . . literally, in portraits...
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"Etta Sparks's cozy dress shop, tucked away at the end of a winding Cambridge road, is a magical place - anyone who steps inside the little blue door to glimpse the glorious silks and jewel-hued velvets can see they are someplace special. But only Etta knows the dresses she sells are actually magic - a few stitches from her needle and each gown imbues the wearer with the confidence to achieve whatever they set their mind too. The only two people the...
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Sisters Grimm (Menna van Praag) volume 2
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English
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"Van Praag braids mystery, magic, and a vicious hunt for power into a dark, delicious story of four estranged, supernatural sisters." - Publishers Weekly on The Sisters Grimm
"Vividly drawn, evocative and complex, The Sisters Grimm is both absorbing and beautiful-a great achievement." - Bridget Collins, author of the international bestseller The Binding
"Van Praag's character-driven, lush novel . . . is a story determined to exalt the powers of...
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm (Menna van Praag) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Vividly drawn, evocative and complex, The Sisters Grimm is both absorbing and beautiful--a great achievement." - Bridget Collins, author of The Binding
"Van Praag braids mystery, magic, and a vicious hunt for power into a dark, delicious story of four estranged, supernatural sisters." - Publishers Weekly
"Van Praag's character-driven, lush novel [...] is a story determined to exalt the powers of the feminine and of sisterhood."
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