Beauty Sleep

Book Description:

"LITTLE PRINCESS, LOVELY AS THE DAWN, WELL-NAMED AURORE..."
With these seemingly innocent words, the fate of a newborn princess is sealed. For years the king and queen despaired of ever having a child. When Aurore arrives, though the entire kingdom celebrates, not all are overjoyed. They use her christening as an occasion for revenge, and her young life is overshadowed by a curse of death almost as soon as it has begun. Those who can, intervene, but evil has a way of holding fast. A sleep of a hundred years following the pricking of a finger is the best that can be done.
And so Aurore grows up. Forbidden princesslike tasks of embroidery and sewing, she explores the great outdoors, reveling in the flora and fauna that surround her castle home. Then one day she meets a handsome stranger in an enchanted wood and begins an adventure the likes of which she never dreamed of.
This is the story of the Sleeping Beauty, here quite awake and given new voice. Taunted by fate, Aurore soon learns that although she cannot sidestep her own destiny, love itself is actually the most powerful magic of all.

I love the story of Sleeping Beauty / Dornroeschen, so I would love to read this.
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P.S. You should be careful when reading book reviews at the office, I accidentally pasted it (after copying to read afterwards) and sent as a business letter. Thankfully, I sent it only to our branch office manager, not to the foreign partner itself! The manager replied: "Did you send this story to the factory??" My thoughts: "What could be wrong with that letter? Is that not polite? ... Then: THAT story! Crazy me!!!". The branch office manager at her side at first thought that we were using an allegoric story to describe the situation better, because English is not her mother tongue either! But no, it was just me. Lucky I did not send it to the factory and this will remain between us - in fact, we are good friends! :))

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P.P.S.1 Book description is taken from amazon.com

P.P.S.2 Hopefully, I'm posting to my blog and not sending to another business partner now!!! That felt like a regular Bridget Jones moment!