EAN: 9780062856388

ALL THE EVER AFTERS - DANIELLE TELLER KARTONIER...

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.

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