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All the ever afters : the untold story of Cinderella's stepmother / Danielle Teller.

ISBN: 9780062856388
ISBN: 0062856383
Physical Description: 376 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : William Morrow, 2018.
Copyright: &copy;2018.

Summary:

We all know the story of Cinderella... or do we? Her stepmother, Agnes, has privately recorded the true story. A peasant born into serfdom, forced into servitude as a laundress's apprentice when she is only ten years old, Agnes was seduced by an older man while a teenager and became pregnant. She had no choice but to return to servitude at the manor she thought she had left behind, where her new position is nursemaid to Ella. 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.

In the vein of WICKED, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella's "evil" stepmother. As rumours 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. 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.