The book portrays a parallel, mirrored world where Alice enters through a mirror and find all the fascinating lives of people living a completely opposite life to what Alice's world had. Here, backwards is forwards, people know about the future and the past is a mystery and logic is a complete opposite. Alice gets to meet Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, sings along all the rhymes including the nonsense rhymes of the Jabberwocky, and lives as a pawn in a living game of chess. She has to become a chess queen in order to get back home and for that, she must play!

A masterpiece of the absurd, Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland continues to inspire artists, filmmakers, musicians, and writers after all these years. Including the Lewis Carroll's famous chess problem.