And Other Feisty Fairy Tales (For Grown-Ups)
'Happily Ever After' is a fabulous collection of seven fairy tales for adults that offer us an entertaining mixture of wonder and cynicism, of magic and the everyday. Jennifer Rowe writes of the frivolous, funny and warmhearted, with a twist of reality to make them fairy tales for our times.
There's one about a trip to the dentist that involves a magic goldfish and a nice-looking man with a receding hairline. Unfortunately the fish has a very short memory. There's the story about the Prince who needed to test if he was loved for himself alone or for his father's money, and there's Rosemary, the plump discarded wife who is transformed into a luscious, bejewelled, berobed and bedazzling creature by Shahim the Great at a charity gala ball.
Presented in a beautifully jacketed small hardback with witty and decorative line drawings inside, 'Happily Ever After' will be a fun and lovely addition to all those Christmas stockings.
