Product Description

A collection of 13 interconnected stories, narrated by women, about power and about surviving, in a bewildering world, to tell your own story. Evil in these stories comes from the simplest of sources and, as Donoghue peers at the psychological and economic realities of life, magic is redefined.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #720266 in Books
• Published on: 1997-04-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

A fresh approach to fairy tales
This book is so inspiring it makes you twitch! It weaves fairy tale narration with beautiful prose and sweet humour. The way each story links to the next is intriguing and makes it so easy to read! You can finish it in a ten minute coffee break.

This is one of my favourite books because of the approach to timeless stories and the seductive vulnerbility if each of the female characters. Each tale has a twist, which makes it thoroughly enjoyable to read.

I can't believe I found it in a tiny back street sea-side book shop for little under three quid! Bargain! And a treasure...

wups, no I got it from here and it was a bargain and a treasure.

13 beautifully told, warm stories linked by one word: LOVE
All emotions of life can be found in this book. Donoghue uses old fairy tales and makes them, in her own special way, ready for the 20th century. Beautiful metaphores make you feel you are the princes in the tower or the witch in the cave. A book all women will love, lesbian or straight.

simple, pick up any time, magical read.
I read this book from cover to cover years ago and gave it away as a present and have regretted it ever since. There is just something about this book, must be the fairy in it, an essence of it never leaves you. I agree with all the other reviews, tecnically, metaphorically, etc. but there is just an extra something that sinks into your unconscious never to be forgotten, the voice or sound of our sisters in the past and future. A subtle simple evocative book that touches some chord within. Definitely one to possess and keep on the shelf. mmmmmm