The author builds this network with remarkable care, and although the resulting novel is a complex web of influences, it's never a confounding one. "Although this novel mainly pays specific homage to Cinderella, Velmans laces the book with references to the other tales. Despite thematically re-imagining the origins of several popular fairy tales, as a bildungsroman the story is refreshingly authentic in the growth of the heroine from an unfettered idealist to a nearly-perfected realist.The charm of the protagonist is more than potent enough to draw the reader along through a story that both pointedly charges us with taking command of our own fate, and tasks us with deciding for ourselves what the moral of our own story should be." - Thomas A. "An unexpectedly honest modern novel clothed in the traditional tropes of historical romance. It is as if a graduate student had stumbled upon a handwritten, 19th century manuscript in the British Library, read it, and declared, 'There was a fourth Bronte sister - and she was the most talented of the brood!'" - Daniel Klein, author of Plato and Platypus Walk into a Bar and Travels with Epicurus Part romantic love story, part fairy tale, part feminist commentary, this is a wonderful, old fashioned novel to be savored. " Slipper is the most engaging novel I have read in a long time.
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