In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella's "evil" stepmother.
Lyrically told, emotionally evocative, and brilliantly perceptive, All the Ever Afters explores the hidden complexities that lie beneath classic tales of good and evil, all the while showing us that how we confront adversity reveals a more profound, and ultimately more important, truth than the ideal of "happily Ever after.".
The story of their relationship reveals that nothing is what it seems, that beauty is not always desirable, and that love can take on many guises.
She struggles to love the child who in time becomes her stepdaughter and, eventually, the celebrated princess who embodies everyone's unattainable fantasies.
Her new position is nursemaid to Ella, an otherworldly infant.
Once again left penniless, Agnes has no choice but to return to servitude at the manor she thought she had left behind.
When teenaged Agnes is seduced by an older man and becomes pregnant, she is transformed by love for her child.
Using her wits and ingenuity, she escapes her tyrannical matron and makes her way toward a hopeful future.
A peasant born into serfdom, Agnes is separated from her family and forced into servitude as a laundress's apprentice when she is only ten years old. . . .
Or do we? As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story.
We all know the story of Cinderella.
In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella's "evil" stepmother
