Book description
When the family business collapses, Beauty and her two sisters are
forced to leave the city and begin a new life in the countryside.
However, when their father accepts hospitality from the elusive and
magical Beast, he is forced to make a terrible promise - to send one
daughter to the Beast's castle, with no guarantee that she will be seen
again. Beauty accepts the challenge, and there begins an extraordinary
story of magic and love that overcomes all boundaries. This is another
spellbinding and emotional tale embroidered around a fairytale from
Robin McKinley, an award-winning American author. Robin McKinley is an
American writer and has won many awards in the US, including the Newbery
Medal for THE HERO AND THE CROWN and a Newbery Honor for THE BLUE SWORD.
She now lives in Hampshire with her husband, author Peter Dickinson,
three whippets, five hundred rose bushes and a 1965 cream-coloured MGB
convertible.
