'Amazing' Meg Rosoff
'Extraordinary' Maggie Alderson

'What some might call beauty, I find monstrous'



In the age of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth I, Lord Francis Rodermere starts to lay waste to a forest.


Furious, the sorceress who dwells there scrawls a curse into the bark of the first oak he fells:




A faerie boy will be born to you whose beauty will be your death.




Ten years later, Lord Rodermere's son, Beau is born - and all who encounter him are struck by his great beauty.


Meanwhile, many miles away in a London alchemist's cellar lives Randa - a beast deemed too monstrous to see the light of day.


And so begins a timeless tale of love, tragedy and revenge...

A stunning retelling of Beauty and the Beast