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Zusatztext 'In a word: amazing! . . . As a retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairytale Maid Maleen! it has all the usual fairytale ingredients - heroes and villains! rags to riches! mistaken identities and plenty of magical romance. We love it' Informationen zum Autor Shannon Hale is the Newbery Honor–winning and New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Academy series, The Books of Bayern , Book of a Thousand Days , Dangerous , and the graphic novels Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack , as well as the Ever After High and Princess in Black series, and the upcoming The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel. She also wrote three novels for adults, including Austenland , now a major motion picture starring Keri Russell. She and her husband, the author Dean Hale, have four children and live near Salt Lake City, Utah. www.shannonhale.com @HaleShannon Klappentext When a beautiful princess refuses to marry the prince her father has chosen! her father is furious and locks her in a tower. She has seven long years of solitude to think about her insolence. But the princess is not entirely alone - she has her maid! Dashti. Petulant and spoilt! the princess eats the food in their meagre store as if she were still at court! and Dashti soon realises they must either escape or slowly starve. But during their captivity! resourceful Dashti discovers that there is something far more sinister behind her princess's fears of marrying the prince! and when they do break free from the tower! they find a land laid to waste and the kingdom destroyed. They were safe in the tower! now they are at the mercy of the evil prince with a terrible secret.Thrilling! captivating! and a masterful example of storytelling at its best. The princess's maid is a feisty and thoroughly modern heroine! in this wonderfully timeless story. A masterful, suspenseful story, revealed through the diary of a princess's maid, as she and her princess face the wrath of an evil prince - and we are introduced to the most wonderfully modern heroine Zusammenfassung A masterful, suspenseful story, revealed through the diary of a princess's maid, as she and her princess face the wrath of an evil prince - and we are introduced to the most wonderfully modern heroine...
