The Ladies of Grace Adieu
And Other Stories
Readers rate it 3.6 (114 on Hardcover)
264 pages · Released 2006 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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This sophisticated collection of literary fairy tales by Susanna Clarke offers historical, fantasy, and magical elements suitable for older teens and adults. While generally not graphic, the stories contain some eerie or unsettling imagery typical of darker fairy tale retellings, occasional romantic elements, and historical context (including references to alcohol). The prose is complex and literary rather than action-driven, rewarding patient, mature readers.
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Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time in embroidering terrible fates, or with en... Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time in embroidering terrible fates, or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairytales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary Queen of Scots, as well as two characters from Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell- Strange himself and the Raven King.
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- Fiction
- Weak Character Development
- Unloveable Characters
- Not Diverse Characters
- Calibre Import
- Character driven
- historical
- Adventurous
- mysterious
- Fantasy
- General
- Historical Fiction
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ISBN 9781596912519 · Bloomsbury Publishing