The Beginning Woods

McNeill has created a fabulous universe packed full of wonder and terror. The Beginning Woods has earned its place on a shelf with Gormenghast and The Princess Bride. I loved every word and was envious of quite a few. It opened my eyes wide and quickened my heart. A modern classic rich, funny and terrifying Eoin Colfer Highly original and beguiling debut that promises magic, terror and the dark menace of fairytales The Bookseller You'll finish this book and I feel like you've woken from a deep, refreshing sleep full of incredible, slightly unsettling, breathtaking dreams and your life in the real world will never be quite the same again -- Zoe Toft Playing by the Book Complex, playful, philosophical, with mysterious vanishings and censorship of dreams Imogen Russell Williams The writing is fabulous. It has a fairytale quality to it... an Alice in Wonderland feel to it Between the Bookends (blog) The world is incredible, and highly fascinating. It's weird, peculiar, scary but so so so charming! Where are the books? (blog) Watch out for this one, it'll take you by surprise. Completely brilliant from the first chapter, I was quickly hooked and immersed into this fantastical world... An absolutely captivating debut that'll have you reading late into the night Askew's Children's Newsletter Captivates with its wealth of ideas and multilayered plot Debutliteratur It's the fantastical characters and details, which make this book so compelling Tages-Anzeiger