Spirited away: Gabrielle Wang on ‘The Beast of Hushing Woods’

Gabrielle Wang’s The Beast of Hushing Woods (Puffin, April) is a ‘lyrical, dreamlike fable for confident readers aged 10 and up’, which ‘marries snippets of Eastern mythology with a setting reminiscent of the Appalachians, while creating a place wholly its own’. Reviewer Holly Harper spoke to the author. (Read her...