The Girl with No Hands

This collection gathers dark retellings of fairy tales and folk stories, each reworked to give fuller weight to the women and girls who often sit at the margins of the originals. Some pieces draw on familiar motifs such as cursed brides, bargains with uncanny beings and sinister houses in the woods, while others move through old European patterns into more unsettling territory. The stories are sharp and often unsparing. They return to older forms of cruelty and magic while asking who gets to be the hero of a tale, and what it costs to be one.