Boy, Snow, Bird is a haunting and beautiful retelling of the Snow White myth, from author of the award-winning White is for Witching.

A Granta Best Young British Novelist 2013 A New York Times Notable Book 2014 'Dazzling, inventive, light on her feet, Oyeyemi is unique' Jackie Kay, Guardian Books of the Year 2014 'Quite simply a writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam' Ali Smith, TLS Books of the Year 2014 The Whitman family has been harbouring a secret in Flax Hill for three generations. When Boy brings Bird into their lives, suddenly that secret is out in the wintery New England light. Written with heart-rending vibrancy and eerie beauty, Boy, Snow, Bird is a sinuous story in which a mirror never shows all there is to see . . . 'Full of jeux d'esprit and lightning skies' Guardian 'You should only read Oyeyemi if you're ready to start a lifetime relationship with a writer of gorgeous, gymnastic, fairy tale-infused fiction' Flavorwire 'Astonishing' Los Angeles Times

The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, named one of Granta's best young British novelists. A retelling of the Snow White myth, Boy, Snow, Bird is a deeply moving novel about an unbreakable bond . . .

BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exactly a welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the hometown of Arturo Whitman – craftsman, widower, and father of Snow.

SNOW is mild-mannered, radiant and deeply cherished – exactly the sort of little girl Boy never was, and Boy is utterly beguiled by her. If Snow displays a certain inscrutability at times, that's simply a characteristic she shares with her father, harmless until Boy gives birth to Snow's sister, Bird.

When BIRD is born Boy is forced to re-evaluate the image Arturo's family have presented to her, and Boy, Snow and Bird are broken apart.

Sparkling with wit and vibrancy, Boy, Snow, Bird is a novel about three women and the strange connection between them. It confirms Helen Oyeyemi's place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of her generation.