Hansel & Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes by Simon Armitage

Hansel & Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes

Simon Armitage with Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Illustrator)

104 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

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Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a twenty-first century story, whose preoc...

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