THE RESTLESS GIRLS

The debut children’s book from bestselling author Burton (The

Miniaturist), dazzlingly illustrated by Angela Barrett. This is a funny, irreverent feminist take on a classic fairytale, with bawdy cursing from the 12 daughters of the late Queen Laurelia, who died in a motor accident. King Alberto, fearing for the safety of his princesses, prizes their possessions from them and keeps them captive. But the eldest, imaginative

Frida, is having none of it. A hidden staircase, a boat and a lagoon later: “It’s bloody freezing,” says Ariosta, “And the girls laugh for the first time since their mother died.”