The Restless Girls

Jessie Burton Press Reviews

A magical modern retelling of an old fairytale - the exquisite text and illustrations work in perfect harmony  Jacqueline Wilson

The Restless Girls is wild, wise, generous, ferocious kind of story. It's a tale to read to your children (of both genders) over and over, and for them to read to theirs. It's a book that glows   Katherine Rundell

A beautifully realised, whirling adventure full of the dark glitter of growing up, The Restless Girls is a fierce fairytale for the rebel girl - and boy - generation  Kiran Millwood Hargrave

It's critical what we read our kids ... Jessie Burton has very cleverly has taken a fairytale that was already standing and loved, but has reframed it. It's asking you to think of yourself and value yourself in terms other than the way you look, and just that - that one tiny aspect of the book - alone, was, to me, just a complete revelation   Thandie Newton 

A story of love, loss, grief, and a desperate yearning for freedom, told with breathtaking compassion and wisdom  Louise O'Neill, author of The Surface Breaks 

[Burton] fleshes out this traditional fairytale with personality ... Angela Barrett's illustrations, meanwhile, add an exotic visual richness to Burton's painterly descriptions of the princesses' enchanted underworld    Irish Times

A riveting feminist retelling, filled with excitement, imagination, magic, and just the right touch of darkness. These twelve fierce heroines will be a pleasure to return to again and again  Madeline Miller