Slipper
Hester Velmans
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
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· 3 ratings · 380 pages · Published: 17 Apr 2018
Lucinda, a penniless English orphan, is abused and exploited as a cinder-sweep by her aristocratic relatives. On receiving her sole inheritance—a pair of glass-beaded slippers—she runs away to France in pursuit of an officer on whom she has a big crush. She joins the baggage train of Louis XIV’s army, survives a terrible massacre, and eventually finds her way to Paris. There she befriends the man who will some day write the world’s most famous fairy tale, Charles Perrault, and tells him her life story.
There is more: a witch hunt, the sorry truth about daydreams, and some truly astonishing revelations, such as the historical facts behind the story of the Emperor's new clothes, and a perfectly reasonable explanation for the compulsion some young women have to kiss frogs.
This is not the fairy tale you remember.
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- fantasy 4
- romance 4
- historical 3
- historical fiction 3
- retellings 3
- action / adventure 2
- fairy tales 2
- folktales & legends 1
- dark 1
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- content warnings
- sexual assault 2
- format - reader age
- book 1
- adult fiction 1