{"product_id":"the-modern-fairies-by-clare-pollard","title":"The Modern Fairies by Clare Pollard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhy don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story? Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are. No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one. Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Modern Fairies is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for the Modern Fairies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Anaïs Nin - the book I really really needed' - SARAH PERRY, author of The Essex Serpent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Funny, filthy, dancingly clever: a delectable confection of many-layered pleasures. A story of stories, storytellers, and the lurking dangers of fairytales. It reminded me of Jeanette Winterson's The Passion, and I gobbled it all up' JOANNA QUINN, author of The Whalebone Theatre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Original, fantastical, historical, and unputdownable' KAREN JOY FOWLER, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Mount Florida Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45303946871028,"sku":"9780241672457","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9780241672457.jpg?v=1716994341","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.live\/products\/the-modern-fairies-by-clare-pollard","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}