A Sunday Times bestselling lush fantasy retelling of Hansel and Gretel set in seventeenth-century Germany. Perfect for fans of Brigid Kemmerer, Naomi Novik and Marissa Meyer. Fifteen years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their father and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its people starving in the aftermath of a brutal war. Greta has a secret, though: the witch’s grimoire, secreted away and whispering in Greta’s ear for the past two decades, and the recipe inside that makes...