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

Jacqueline Wilson

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

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, author of The Explorer

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, author of The Girl of Ink & Stars

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