The Modern Fairies

Author(s): Pollard, Clare,
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 13/06/2024,
Pagination: 256 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Fig Tree,
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Dimensions: 222 x 145 x 26mm
Weight: 366g
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241672457

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Why don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their storyVersailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.

No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one.

Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Modern Fairies is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.