Disney’s newest book in its A Twisted Tale Young Adult series is taking a trip back to Wonderland. Unbirthday: A Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell is the 11th book in the read-out-of-order series and third book released in 2020. According to D23, the story follows a now teenage Alice who must return to Wonderland to save her friends.
Here is the book summery:
Alice is different than other 18-year-old ladies in Kexford, which suits her just fine. She’d rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian’s lively salon, ignoring her sister’s wishes that she stop all that “nonsense” and become a “respectable” member of society. Alice is happy to meander to Miss Yao’s teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She’s also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there — but just because she’s curious, of course, and not because he was sweet and charming. But when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjects — like the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, and the Caterpillar. There’s something eerily off about them, even for Wonderland creatures. And as Alice develops a self-portrait, she finds the most disturbing image of all, a badly injured dark-haired girl asking for Alice’s help: Mary Ann. Returning to Wonderland, Alice finds herself on a mission to stop the Queen of Hearts’ tyrannical rule and find her place in both worlds. But can she do it before the end of time?
Liz Braswell talks more about the A Twisted Tale series and this next book in a Q&A with D23.
Unbirthday: A Twisted Tale will be released on September 1, 2020.
Marena Galluccio is a columnist for the Boardwalk Times
