Slippershod (Cinderella) -- The woodcutter's bride (Red Riding Hood) -- Come live here and be loved (Rapunzel) -- You shall not suffer... (Hansel and Gretel) -- Meet the nameless thing and call it friend (Rumpelstiltskin) -- Sister fair (Fair, brown and trembling) -- Ash pale (Snow White) -- Consume or be consumed (A little mermaid) -- Doing well (The frog prince) -- The tender weight (Bluebeard) -- Riverbed (Donkeyskin) -- The little gift (The goose girl) -- Beauty and the board (Beauty and the beast).
A collection of dark, feminist retellings of traditional fairytales, given a witchy makeover, not for the faint-hearted, from one of Ireland's leading writers for young people.
Adolescent.