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Mothers Grimm
Paperback Edition: 2014
In a fairytale, the only good mother is six feet under. All the others are bad news. A fairytale mother will exchange her first-born child for a handful of leafy greens. And if times get tough, she'll walk her babes into the woods and leave
them there. But mothers of today do no such things. Do they? In this collection of heart-breakingly honest stories, the mothers of the Brothers Grimm are brought - with wit, subversiveness and lyrical prose - into the here and now. Danielle Wood turns four fairytales on their heads and makes them exquisitely her own.
Award winning author of The Alphabet of Light and Dark.
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Pages : 214
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Publication date : 2014-09-01
Subjects: Fiction, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Historical Fiction