Clare Pollard The Modern Fairies Paperback Book

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TADEUSZ BRADECKI PRIZEA novel with oodles of charm The TimesElegant, decadent, vulgar, clever, enchanting and dark Sarah Perry, author of EnlightenmentVersailles, 1682 a city of the rich, a living fairytale, Louis XIVs fever dream. Its a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and youll 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 dAulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fes 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 longhaired 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. Funny, filthy, dancingly clever ... A delectable confection of manylayered pleasures I gobbled it all up, Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone TheatreThe sentences sing on the page with wit and intelligence ... Reminds the reader of the enduring power of storytelling to transform and even save lives, then and now The New York Times | Clare Pollard The Modern Fairies Paperback Book