Sometimes fairy toles can come true-even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicianor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to aquiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifullysmall homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But It's a brandnew century-the twentieth-a time for new thoughts and boldnew actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she hasjust set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted and unsuspectingstranger ... who just might be Prince-Charming in disguise.
ISBN: | 9780380704583 |
Publication date: | 1st April 1988 |
Author: | Daniel Woodrell |
Publisher: | Avon Books an imprint of HarperCollins |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 192 pages |
Genres: |
Historical Fiction General Fiction Historical fantasy Fantasy romance Contemporary lifestyle fiction Romance / Relationship Stories Historical romance Humorous Fiction Satirical fiction and parodies Feminism and feminist theory |