{"product_id":"9780241672457-modern-fairies","title":"The Modern Fairies","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE TADEUSZ BRADECKI PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Anaïs Nin - the book I really really needed' SARAH PERRY, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Essex Serpent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The sentences sing on the page with wit and intelligence . This memorable novel reminds the reader of the enduring power of storytelling to transform and even save lives, then and now' \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy 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 story?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVersailles, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo 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 \u003ci\u003eContes de Fées \u003c\/i\u003e- 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, \u003ci\u003eThe Modern Fairies\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Funny, filthy, dancingly clever: a delectable confection of many-layered pleasures. A story of stories, storytellers, and the lurking dangers of fairytales. It reminded me of Jeanette Winterson's \u003ci\u003eThe Passion, \u003c\/i\u003eand I gobbled it all up' JOANNA QUINN, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Whalebone Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Original, fantastical, historical, and unputdownable' KAREN JOY FOWLER, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Pollard's future, as a novelist, is very bright indeed' \u003ci\u003eTHE I\u003c\/i\u003e, praise for \u003ci\u003eDelphi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41540086956129,"sku":"9780241672457","price":16.08,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32314717.jpg?v=1737186320","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241672457-modern-fairies","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}