Fairy Tales For Grown Ups: Three Fairy Tales to Help You Find Your Way Through the Woods

About this book

In this trilogy of witty and beguiling tales, you’ll meet a shy and scholarly prince, a salon storyteller with a secret, and a modern-day woman who has lost her faith in magic… be transported to a different world, full of wonder and enchantment (that perhaps isn’t so very different from our own world, after all). The Botanical Prince – in a small European principality, the Botanical Prince hides his loneliness behind his academic studies… but is botany enough to save him? Madame – as a sophisticated salon storyteller, who tells fairy tales to naive young debutantes, Madame is quite certain she knows the difference between fact and fiction. However, when one of her young protégées decides on a different kind of life, the lines between the fact and fiction soon begin to blur… What You Wish For – aren’t you just fed-up with fairy tales? The heroes and heroines are precocious, the fairy godmothers are flaky and none of it matters anyway, because magic doesn’t exist… does it? Based upon the ‘Fairy Tales for Grown Ups’ sell-out stage show by Sarah Blake, whose previous theatre works also ‘Five Clever Courtesans’, ‘The Ladies in the Garden’, and ‘The Molly Room’. “Sarah Blake’s stories are generated by the characters, which is the hardest kind of story telling – I felt quite envious.” – Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin