Book description
An exceptional retelling of The Sleeping Beauty which takes the reader
into a magical world filled with modern characters, encountering
adventure, love and loss. Rosie is very, very ordinary. No-one, not even
an extremely powerful and evil fairy who is out for the princess's
blood, would give Rosie a second glance. But then, even Rosie doesn't
know the secret of her own birth...and she cannot be hidden forever as
her twenty-first birthday approaches. The curse placed on her at her
christening will hunt her down through the years, gathering strength,
and at some point a princess must become a queen, even if she would
rather just stay ordinary-
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.
