Golden Box Book Publishing GBBPub February Magazine | Page 24

Cinderella
Love story
Cinderella – A Love Story is told here with a fanciful
new twist. It is a completed 17,819-word, 130-page,
fully illustrated retelling of the beloved faerie tale set
circa mid-16th century. Younger readers will love the
borrowed magic that enables Ella to attend the ball,
while older readers – including adults – will connect
with the inseparable bond between mother and child; a
bond that transcends time and space and even death
itself. Ella’s parents are young and in love and the
family is happy until Marie suddenly dies. Her father
remarries, hoping to give his beloved child a mother’s
love and care. But Charles’s new wife is a cruel,
unaffectionate woman, who cares only for her own two very backward
daughters and turns her stepdaughter into a servant. Ten years later, when the
King throws a ball in honour of his son, Ella’s only chance at happiness comes
from a most unexpected source.
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EXCERPT
Charles sat in his favourite chair in the living room of his house. It
was basically an empty house now. His wife Marie had been dead for
four years. The book he’d been reading lay unnoticed on his lap as he
remembered the first day he’d seen her.
It was in Paris in the spring a year before their wedding. She was
sitting by the lake in one of the parks with some of her girlfriends. The
sun shone on her chestnut hair and her almond-shaped eyes sparkled
with laughter. Then she looked up and smiled at him from behind her
umbrella and he felt as if he could fly.