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Thornhedge

(2023)
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Awards
2024 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee)
2024 Hugo Award for Best Novella
2024 Locus Award for Best Novella
2024 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee)
2024 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee)

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella!

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…

"The way Thornhedge turns all the fairy tales inside out is a sharp-edged delight."
—Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor

Also by T. Kingfisher
Nettle & Bone
A Sorceress Comes to Call
What Moves the Dead
What Feasts at Night
A House with Good Bones

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.



Genre: Fantasy

Praise for this book

"I opened, I devoured. Absolutely delightful and full of charm and truth." - Naomi Novik

"This book is so exciting, deeply wise, sad, brutal and compassionate all at once. And beautifully written, with a plot as cunning as fine embroidery." - Catriona Ward


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