It’s an epic tale of a 23-year-old in 18 th century France who feels stifled by society and sells her soul for a taste of freedom. While she was writing those books, she kept “Addie LaRue” simmering on a back burner. (Her books for kids and teens are published under her real name, Victoria, but she used her initials to combat gender stereotyping among adult readers.)
Since 2011, Schwab has published nearly 20 fantasy novels (as well as comic books and scripts) for adults, young adults and children, and most have been hugely successful, including “Vicious” and her Shades of Magic series. 6, one day after publishing a moving essay on coming out for.
Only now, when Schwab is 33, is “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” finally done. One day while she was hiking and thinking about her grandmother’s dementia and what it meant for her mother, she decided to write a book about a girl who was forgotten. Schwab was 22, she was living in a garden shed in someone’s backyard in Liverpool.
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