The Grace of Wild Things, Heather Fawcett
The Grace of Wild Things, Heather Fawcett
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The Grace of Wild Things

Author: Heather Fawcett

Narrator: Aven Shore

Unabridged: 8 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 02/14/2023


Synopsis

An inventive and fantastical reimagining of Anne of Green Gables—with magic and witches!—that explores found family, loss, and the power of a girl's imagination, from the acclaimed author of The Language of Ghosts and The School Between Winter and Fairyland. Perfect for readers who loved The Girl Who Drank the Moon and Serafina and the Black Cloak.""A magical, witchy, and thoroughly successful homage to a classic."" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Grace has never been good at anything except magic—not that anyone believes her.While other children are adopted from the orphanage, nobody wants Grace. So she decides to make a home for herself by running away and offering herself as an apprentice to the witch in the nearby woods. After all, who better to teach Grace to use her magic? Surely the witch can’t be that bad.But the witch is that bad—she steals souls for spells and gobbles up hearts. So Grace offers a deal: If she can learn all 100½ spells in the witch’s grimoire, the witch will make Grace her apprentice. But if Grace fails, the witch can take her magic. The witch agrees, and soon an unexpected bond develops between them.But the spells are much harder than Grace expected, and when a monster from the witch’s past threatens the home Grace has built, she may have to sacrifice more than her magic to save it.


About Heather Fawcett

Heather Fawcett is also the author of the middle grade novels The School Between Winter and Fairyland, The Language of Ghosts, and Ember and the Ice Dragons as well as the young adult Even the Darkest Stars series. She has a master’s degree in English literature and has worked as an archaeologist, photographer, technical writer, and backstage assistant for a Shakespearean theater festival. She lives on Vancouver Island, Canada. Heather can be found online at heatherfawcettbooks.com. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rosh (Off GR duty for a fortnight!) on February 16, 2023

In a Nutshell: A witchy retelling of ‘Anne of Green Gables’! Good for middle graders who don’t get scared easily. Knowing the original tale isn’t necessary, though it helps. If you are an adult fan of Anne and also like fantasy, you might wanna add this to your agenda. Story Synopsis: Grace is a youn......more

Goodreads review by Dona's on January 10, 2023

Thank you to the author, Heather Fawcett, Publishers Harper Collins Children's Books and Balzer & Bray, and as always NetGalley, for an advance digital copy to read of THE GRACE OF WILD THINGS. In this book, which is a retelling of Anne of Green Gables, Grace is a young witch who leaves her society b......more

Goodreads review by Jorie on January 12, 2024

Definitive cozy fantasy. It takes a work already so nostalgic and comforting for so many, Anne of Green Gables, and retells it as a fairytale. Like Anne, our heroine Grace is a freckled, grandiloquent 12-year-old orphan, embarking on what she hopes will be a new turn in her life. She enters an enchan......more

Goodreads review by Katie on March 18, 2023

I really enjoyed this “witchy” retelling of Anne of Green Gables—partly because it wasn’t a complete 1:1. That would not have worked for me. But there were enough crossovers to delight me. I recognized the beloved characters and there were some episodes that were heavily inspired by episodes in the......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on May 17, 2023

Review coming soon.......more