Spindle's End [Hardcover]

Written with rich inventiveness, good characters and real stylistic skill and flair - a fat treat in which to lose yourself. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Electrifying storytelling, a must read for fans of quality fantasy of any age --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

What starts off as the story of Sleeping Beauty twists and turns, becoming ever more magical. Prepare to be enchanted. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

An exceptional retelling of The Sleeping Beauty which takes the reader into a magical world filled with modern characters, encountering adventure, love and loss. Rosie is very, very ordinary. No-one, not even an extremely powerful and evil fairy who is out for the princess's blood, would give Rosie a second glance. But then, even Rosie doesn't know the secret of her own birth...and she cannot be hidden forever as her twenty-first birthday approaches. The curse placed on her at her christening will hunt her down through the years, gathering strength, and at some point a princess must become a queen, even if she would rather just stay ordinary... --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

An exceptional retelling of The Sleeping Beauty which takes the reader into a magical world filled with modern characters, encountering adventure, love and loss.

Rosie is very, very ordinary. No-one, not even an extremely powerful and evil fairy who is out for the princess's blood, would give Rosie a second glance. But then, even Rosie doesn't know the secret of her own birth...and she cannot be hidden forever as her twenty-first birthday approaches. The curse placed on her at her christening will hunt her down through the years, gathering strength, and at some point a princess must become a queen, even if she would rather just stay ordinary... --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Robin McKinley is an American writer and has won many awards

in the US, including the Newbery Medal for THE HERO AND THE CROWN and a Newbery Honor for THE BLUE SWORD. She now lives in Hampshire with her husband, author Peter Dickinson, three whippets, five hundred rose bushes and a 1965 cream-coloured MGB convertible.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.