Vanessa Tait

LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARDOxford, 1862. Poor, plain Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, a friend of the family, she is flattered by his attentions and becomes convinced he plans to propose marriage. But it is also clear that he is drawn to the little girls in Marys care, and on a boating trip one sunny day Mr Dodgson tells the story of Alices Adventures in Wonderland a curious tale about the precocious Alice LiddellAs Mary waits for her life to change, she becomes increasingly suspicious of Alices friendship with Mr Dodgson. Before long, everything Mary believes is turned topsy-turvy, and her determination to get to the truth will have lasting consequences for all involved...

Una novelización sutil, brillante, y sorprendente de los orígenes deAlicia en el País de las Maravillas, de Lewis Carroll, escrita por Vanessa Tait, bisnieta de la Alicia Liddell, la niña que inspiró los libros de Carroll.Durante un dia soleado de 1862 en Oxford, el Reverendo Dodgson, no conocido aun como Lewis Carroll, cuenta a la familia Liddell la historia de las aventuras deAlicia en el Pais de las Maravillas.Pero Mary Prickett, la extraña institutriz de las hermanas Liddell, tiene una obsesion y hara todo lo posible para llevarla a cabo: a Mary no le gustan los niños, y especialmente Alice Liddell. Su plan sera reemplazarla como musa del escritor porque quiere compensar su aburrida realidad de institutriz con delirios romanticos y ensoñaciones.

Oxford, 1862. Poor, plain Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, a friend of the family, she is flattered by his attentions and becomes convinced he plans to propose marriage. But it is also clear that he is drawn to the little girls in Mary's care, and on a boating trip one sunny day Mr Dodgson tells the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland a curious tale about the precocious Alice LiddellAs Mary waits for her life to change, she becomes increasingly suspicious of Alice's friendship with Mr Dodgson. Before long, everything Mary believes is turned topsy-turvy, and her determination to get to the truth will have lasting consequences for all involved...