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FAIRY TALE

▸RELEASED OUT NOW!

584 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook

▸Author Stephen King

▸Publisher Hodder & Stoughton

According to the introduction to Fairy Tale, this book is an answer to a question Stephen King asked himself at the start of the pandemic: what could he write that would make him happy? Well, we’re glad he’s happy…

This is King’s spin on Narnia/Wonderland-style fantasy, with a youngster from series, and it’s impossible to read this latest book without wondering where it fits into the King multiverse. But is a far more literal reinterpretation of down-the-rabbit-hole storytelling, even if it does take a third of the book before we find the rabbit hole.

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