The looking glass
By: Michèle Roberts.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Women domestics -- Fiction; Storytelling -- Fiction; Poets -- Fiction; France -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Genevieve is maid to Madame Patin in a country bar and cafe and becomes the breathless audience to her mistress's folk stories, beginning with the siren-calling mermaid. As Genevieve's own comeliness ripens to siren-like beauty, she takes flight, only to end up with another word-spinner - the poet.