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Imprint: RHCP Digital
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Published: 30/11/2011
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ISBN: 9781446498606
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Length: 464 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
An exceptional retelling of The Sleeping Beauty which takes the reader into a magical world filled with modern characters, encountering adventure, love and loss. Rosie is very, very ordinary. No-one, not even an extremely powerful and evil fairy who is out for the princess's blood, would give Rosie a second glance. But then, even Rosie doesn't know the secret of her own birth...and she cannot be hidden forever as her twenty-first birthday approaches. The curse placed on her at her christening will hunt her down through the years, gathering strength, and at some point a princess must become a queen, even if she would rather just stay ordinary-
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Imprint: RHCP Digital
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Published: 30/11/2011
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ISBN: 9781446498606
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Length: 464 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"A fairy tale, but also a long, leisurely, sophisticated narrative which makes no linguistic compromises. . . . Spindle's End's subject is magical perils, but as a novel it is an almost utopian love story. A curious and distinctive book"
Books for Keeps
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"A skilful retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale. . . . This is electrifying story-telling, a must-read for fans of quality fantasy of any age"
Anne Marley, Financial Times
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"I would recommend very few of the novels written for teenagers that pass through my hands to a discerning adult reader. So this is a bit of a find. An extraordinarily imaginative retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale, McKinley's book is genuinely enchanting but emotionally tough"
Guardian
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"Written with rich inventiveness, good characters and real stylistic skill and flair, it is a fat treat in which to lose yourself"
Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times
