She is now a photographer and Wonderland seems like a distant dream. In this novel, it has been eleven years since Alice had her initial adventure in Wonderland and now, she is 18-years-old living with her family in Victorian England.

Each novel is a standalone and takes the classic Disney movies and gives them a twist to create a new, sometimes darker, tale. Unbirthday is the tenth installment in the Twisted Tales series. Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice finds herself on a mission to stop the Queen of Hearts’ tyrannical rule and to find her place in both worlds. And as Alice develops a self-portrait, she finds the most disturbing image of all-a badly-injured dark-haired girl asking for Alice’s help. There’s something eerily off about them, even for Wonderland creatures. She’s also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because she’s curious, of course, not because he was sweet and charming.īut when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjects-the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar.

Alice is happy to meander to Miss Yao’s teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She’d rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian’s lively salon, ignoring her sister’s wishes that she stop all that “nonsense” and become a “respectable” member of society. What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?Īlice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her.

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