BOOK DETAILS: Book Title : The Girl In The Tower Author : Katherine Arden ISBN : 9781785031069 Publisher : Del Rey (Penguin) Genre : Fantasy / Russian Fairytale Retelling Publication : 2017 Pages : 363 Format : Hardback BOOK BLURB: The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home—but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege. Orphaned and cast out as a witch by her village, Vasya’s options are few: resign herself to life in a convent, or allow her older sister to make her a match with a Moscovite prince. Both doom her to life in a tower, cut off from the vast world she longs to explore. So instead she chooses adventure, disguising herself as a boy and riding her horse into the woods. When a battle with some bandits who have been terrorizing the countryside earns her
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