This is the premise of "Godmother", an interesting if somewhat ultimately disappointing book by Carolyn Turgeon. Lillian ("Lil"), an older woman in her 60s, is employed at Daedulus Books. She loves going to work early and putting the store right, dusting shelves, processing books and checking up on her employer, George, a newly divorced man who. · Au contraire. The Godmother, by Carolyn Turgeon is a look at the psychology behind a fairy godmother who not only falls in love with Prince Charming herself, but ultimately feels better suited for him as well. Lil is a fairy godmother cast out of her rich, lustrous fairy world and forced to live her days disguised as an old lumpy woman on earth because she didn't fulfill her mission to unite Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. · A new take on Cinderella, told from the perspective of the fairy godmother living in modern-day Manhattan. Lil is an old woman who spends her days shelving rare books in a tiny Manhattan bookstore and lonely nights at home in her apartment. But Lil has an intriguing secret. Tucked and bound behind her back are white feathery wings--the only key to who she once was: the fairy Brand: Crown Publishing Group.
Who hasn't grown up on the fairy tale, Cinderella? It's a book, a Disney cartoon and there have been numerous films adapted, revised and revisited about Cinderella. Carolyn Turgeon's Godmother is a unique retelling of Cinderella from the perspective of THE fairy godmother. It is creative and refreshing. Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story Paperback - March 3 by Carolyn Turgeon (Author) › Visit Amazon's Carolyn Turgeon page. Find all the books, read about the author and more. See search results for this author. Carolyn Turgeon (Author) out of 5 stars 73 ratings. Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story - Carolyn Turgeon Resident guest blogger Julia is back with her reiveiw of Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story by Carolyn Turgeon. Everyone loves a fairy tale. But do you know what really happened the night Cinderella went to the ball? Meet Lil, an old woman who works in a book store and has a dark and.
Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story. Godmother.: Carolyn Turgeon. Crown, Mar 3, - Fiction - pages. 2 Reviews. A new take on Cinderella, told from the perspective of the fairy godmother. “Godmother is earthy, lyrical, sensual and deeply, intelligently romantic. Carolyn Turgeon has a gift for mingling the magical and the mundane. Her earthy, sensual and richly imagined take on the fair folk should appeal to fans of Holly Black.” —Alisa Kwitney/Sheckley, author of Flirting in Cars and The Better to Hold You. I’m Carolyn Turgeon, and I’m the author of five novels —. Rain Village, Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story, Mermaid, The Fairest of Them All, and The Next Full Moon, most of them based on old-time fairy tales, dark and glimmering—and, more recently, The Faerie Handbook, which came out from HarperCollins in and might be the loveliest book printed this century, and the equally curvaceous The Mermaid Handbook, which came out in
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