This is a retelling of the old Romany version of Cinderella. In this one the young woman has a magical mossy coat instead of a fairy godmother. She also has a mother who has strange ideas about parenting and how to deal with men. But at its heart it's still the same old sexist nonsense.… Continue reading Inventing our stories: Telling it the way it should be, not the way it was
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Book Review: ‘Jay Loves Lucy’ and ‘Not the Swiss Family Robinson’
'Not the Swiss Family Robinson' by Fiona Cooper. I bought this book years ago when I first fell in love with Rotary Spokes (another character by Fiona Cooper) but it's been on my bookshelf waiting. I finally read it, a few decades later!It is well worth a read. In fact, it's totally great if you're… Continue reading Book Review: ‘Jay Loves Lucy’ and ‘Not the Swiss Family Robinson’