An edition of All the ever afters (2018)

All the ever afters

the untold story of Cinderella's stepmother

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An edition of All the ever afters (2018)

All the ever afters

the untold story of Cinderella's stepmother

First edition.
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"In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella's "evil" stepmother. We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we? As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story. A peasant born into serfdom, Agnes is separated from her family and forced into servitude as a laundress's apprentice when she is only ten years old. Using her wits and ingenuity, she escapes her tyrannical matron and makes her way toward a hopeful future. When teenaged Agnes is seduced by an older man and becomes pregnant, she is transformed by love for her child. Once again left penniless, Agnes has no choice but to return to servitude at the manor she thought she had left behind. Her new position is nursemaid to Ella, an otherworldly infant. She struggles to love the child who in time becomes her stepdaughter and, eventually, the celebrated princess who embodies everyone's unattainable fantasies. The story of their relationship reveals that nothing is what it seems, that beauty is not always desirable, and that love can take on many guises. Lyrically told, emotionally evocative, and brilliantly perceptive, All the Ever Afters explores the hidden complexities that lie beneath classic tales of good and evil, all the while showing us that how we confront adversity reveals a more profound, and ultimately more important, truth than the ideal of "happily ever after.""--

"A luminous retelling of the classic Cinderella tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, the "evil" step-mother"--

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English
Pages
376

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All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother Teller, Danielle
May 22, 2018, William Morrow
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Cover of: All the Ever Afters
All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother
May 22, 2018, HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, William Morrow & Company
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Cover of: All the Ever Afters
All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother
2018, HarperCollins Publishers
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Cover of: All the ever afters
All the ever afters: the untold story of Cinderella's stepmother
2018
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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3620.E447 A79 2018, PS3620.E447A79 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
376 pages
Number of pages
376

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26952334M
ISBN 10
0062798200, 0062798073
ISBN 13
9780062798206, 9780062798077
LCCN
2017043121
OCLC/WorldCat
1001767692
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B071S5VVJN

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Work ID
OL19739255W

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