Spindle's End

by Robin McKinley

Paperback, 432 pages

English language

Published May 13, 2002 by Firebird, Penguin.

ISBN:: 978-0-698-11950-5
OCLC Number:: 49835619

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The evil fairy Pernicia has set a curse on Princess Briar-Rose: she is fated to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an endless, poisoned sleep. Katriona, a young fairy, kidnaps the princess in order to save her; she and her aunt raise the child in their small village, where no one knows her true identity. But Pernicia is looking for her, intent on revenge for a defeat four hundred years old. Robin McKinley's masterful version of Sleeping Beauty is, like all of her work, a remarkable literary feat.

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