However I can tell you the reason I enjoyed it so much. I cannot tell you the purpose of why she chose to write this book. If she can find a soul mate for Veronica, she may return to the fairy world she so deeply longs for….ĬAROLYN TURGEON is the author of Rain Village and is working on her third book, a noir.Īnd so states the back cover of Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story, an amazing book I read this month by Carolyn Turgeon. But then one day she meets Veronica- a fair-skinned, dark-haired young East Village beauty with a passion for all things vintage and a penchant for falling in love with the wrong men- and suddenly it becomes clear to Lil that she’s been given a chance at redemption. For the unforgivable mistake, she was banished to live out among human beings, far from her fairy sister, her friends, and their magical world. Lil allowed herself the unthinkable: to feel the emotions of human beings and fall in love with the prince herself, going to the ball in place of Cinderella in her exquisitely gorgeous human guise. Tucked and bound behind her back are white feathery-wings- the only key to who she once was: the fairy godmother responsible for getting Cinderella to the ball to meet, fall in love with, and mary Prince Charming.īut on that fateful night, something went terribly and beautifully wrong.

Lil is an old woman who spends her days shelving rare books in a tiny Manhattan bookstore and lonely nights at home in her apartment.

The dark and enchanting backstory of Cinderella’s fairy godmother

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