Stepsister Audiobook (Free)

A stunning and shocking retelling from the Cinderella fairytale from a Carnegie Medal novelist

‘In an ancient city by the sea, three sisters – a maiden, a mother, and a crone – are drawing maps by candlelight. Sombre, with piercing greyish eyes, they are the three Fates, and every map can be a human life .’

Stepsister occupies where Cinderella’s tale ends. We meet Isabelle, the younger of Cinderella’s two stepsisters. Ella is known as beautiful; stepsister Isabelle isn’t. Isabelle is usually fearless, about Stepsister fearless, and strong-willed. She fences much better than any young man, and will take her stallion over jumps that cultivated men fear to try. No matter, though; these characteristics are not valued in a woman. Others have driven what is beautiful, and Isabelle does not match their description. Isabelle must face down the demons that drove her cruel treatment of Ella, challenge her own fate and maybe even redefine the very notion of beauty . . .

Cinderella is about a girl who was simply bullied; Stepsister is approximately the bully. We all main for the victims, we want to see them triumph. But what about the bullies? Is there expect them? Can a mean female modification? Can she find her own gladly ever after?