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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by: Gregory Maguire List Price: £14.99 City Travel Guides Price: £10.49 You Save: £4.50 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780755341672 ISBN: 0755341678 Label: Headline Review Manufacturer: Headline Review Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: April 03, 2008 Publisher: Headline Review Studio: Headline Review Sales Rank: 280315 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Beautiful re-telling This review relates to the paperback edition. During an enforced 3-hour stopover at Los Angeles airport I found this and couldn't resist the cover or the blurb. I haven't read/seen any of his books, so had nothing with which to compare this, and I loved it. It runs alongside Cinderella in a non-parallel line which every now and again curves in to touch the fairy story and remind us of the original, but at the same time keeps very much to its own path. The setting of 17th-century Holland is evocative and atmospheric, including the use of art and the tulip-trade, the machinations of the desperate Margarethe are terrible and at the same time understandable, and Iris is - well, she's lovely. There are comments in some reviews that there ... Read More: |
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