num_pages: 288
description: A sophisticated literary fairy tale for the twenty-first century in which Cinderella thirteen years after her marriage is on the brink of leaving her supposedly perfect life behind.Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now two children and thirteen and a half years later things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night fed up she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who for a price offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron Cinderella doesn't ask for a love spell to win back her Prince Charming.Instead she wants him dead.Endlessly surprising wildly inventive and decidedly modern The Charmed Wife weaves together time and place fantasy and reality to conjure a world unlike any other. Nothing in it is quite what it seems and the twists and turns of its magical dark swiftly shifting paths take us deep into the heart of what makes us unique of romance and marriage and of the very nature of storytelling.
language: English
title: The Charmed Wife
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons