Dancing on Knives

After her parents' divorce, Rochelle Parfitt is suddenly uprooted to Melbourne, a city where she and her mother know absolutely no one. Feeling isolated and unhappy, she begins skipping school and secretly takes a job at the World Tree, a cozy inner-city bookshop specializing in fairytales. As she navigates her mother's deepening depression and the challenges of her new life, Rochelle begins using these classic stories as a map to understand the complicated adult world around her.