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Description for Ash
paperback. A sensual and evocative re-telling of Cinderella. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. FFEP has been removed, but remains a very good copy
In the world of ASH, fairies are an older race of people who walk the line between life and death, reality and magic. As orphaned Ash grows up, a servant in her stepmother's home, she begans to realise that her beloved mother, Elinor, was very much in tune with these underworld folk, and that she herself has the power to see them too. Against the sheer misery of her stepmother's cruelty, greed and ambition in preparing her two charmless daughters for presentation at court, and hopefully royal or aristocratic marriage, Ash befriends one of these fairies - a mysterious, ... Read more
In the world of ASH, fairies are an older race of people who walk the line between life and death, reality and magic. As orphaned Ash grows up, a servant in her stepmother's home, she begans to realise that her beloved mother, Elinor, was very much in tune with these underworld folk, and that she herself has the power to see them too. Against the sheer misery of her stepmother's cruelty, greed and ambition in preparing her two charmless daughters for presentation at court, and hopefully royal or aristocratic marriage, Ash befriends one of these fairies - a mysterious, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Watts
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340988374
SKU
KMK0018522
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Malinda Lo
Malinda Lo was born in China and moved to the United States as a child. She was the managing editor of AfterEllen.com, with over half a million readers each month. In 2006, she was awarded the Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Media by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for her writing about gender, race and ... Read more
Reviews for Ash
With beautiful, lyrical writing and a main character whose strength and capacity for love fueled my hope, I look back on this book as the one that kept me going, kept me dedicated to imagining the love stories I wanted to tell.
Tess Sharpe, author of Far From You, via Guardian Online
Beautifully written... this sensual and evocative ... Read more
Tess Sharpe, author of Far From You, via Guardian Online
Beautifully written... this sensual and evocative ... Read more