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A Hunger of Thorns

A Hunger of Thorns, Book 1

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A Hunger of Thorns

By: Lili Wilkinson
Narrated by: Katy Sobey
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Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls who slayed dragons and saved princes. Then Maude grew up and lost her magic – and her best friend. Storytelling is her only gift that remains.

Odette always hungered for forbidden, dangerous magic, and two weeks ago she went searching for it. Now she's missing, and everyone believes she's dead. Everyone except Maude.

Maude is sure she can find Odette inside the ruins of Sicklehurst, an abandoned power plant built over an ancient magical forest – a place nobody else seems to remember is there. The danger is, nobody knows what remains inside Sicklehurst, either. And every good story is sure to have a monster...

2024, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Writing for Young Adults, Winner

2024, Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Older Readers, Winner

2024, Prime Minister's Literary Awards Young Adult, Short-listed

©2023 Lili Wilkinson (P)2023 Penguin Random House LLC Science Fiction & Fantasy

Critic reviews

'Completely entrancing... It's full of magic – the real thing. And it's full of feminine power, dark mysteries and unforgettable characters.' (Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling co-author of the Aurora Cycle)

'A lush, spellbinding tale with dangerously enchanting characters, A Hunger of Thorns is filled with gorgeous emotion and sapphic yearning that will leave you breathless.' (C.S. Pacat, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Rise)

'Maude's quest will take you to deep, dark, festering places and bring you soaring back out into the light.' (Margo Lanagan, author of Printz Honor Book Tender Morsels)
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Such a beautiful book to listen too. Very well read out. Such a magical story about magic and friendship. How thing change. How obsession is there but can change all at the same time. A young girl growing up being a storyteller. Fighting for friendship. Them fighting together. How when all seems lost they come together and to try and save each other.

I have absolutely loved listen to this beautiful story

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