She loves her mother, father, and sister, but is able to relate more closely to her quirky Aunt. As a young adult, she can hardly remember all the glorious details and somewhat wishes that she hadn’t told the dreams to go away.
Unbirthday, by Liz Braswell, is a charismatic twisted tale for fans of Alice in Wonderland who remain “curiouser and curiouser!” It is an enchanting spellbinding story based on the familiar characters of Alice in Wonderland, but not the Wonderland as we may know it.Īlthough Alice’s dreams of Wonderland are so vivid that it’s easy to believe Wonderland is truly real, over the past eleven years she’s outgrown such unlikely and unbelievable dreams. The twists enhanced a much loved quirky story! 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.Mary Ann. 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.
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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