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The Beast's Heart

The Beast's Heart

A Novel of Beauty and the Beast

by Leife Shallcross
Paperback
Publication Date: 12/02/2019

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A luxuriously magical retelling of Beauty and the Beast set in seventeenth-century France-and told from the point of view of the Beast himself.

I am neither monster nor man-yet I am both. I am the Beast.

He is a broken, wild thing, his heart's nature exposed by his beastly form. Long ago cursed with a wretched existence, the Beast prowls the dusty hallways of his ruined chateau with only magical, unseen servants to keep him company-until a weary traveler disturbs his isolation.

Bewitched by the man's dreams of his beautiful daughter, the Beast devises a plan to lure her to the chateau. There, Isabeau courageously exchanges her father's life for her own and agrees to remain with the Beast for a year. But even as their time together weaves its own spell, the Beast finds winning Isabeau's love is only the first impossible step in breaking free from the curse....
ISBN:
9780440001775
9780440001775
Category:
Fantasy romance
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
12-02-2019
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
416
Dimensions (mm):
196x129x24mm
Weight:
0.32kg
Leife Shallcross

Leife Shallcross lives at the foot of a mountain in Canberra, Australia, with her family and a small, scruffy creature that snores. She has a tendency to overindulge in reading fairy tales, then lie awake at night listening to trolls (or maybe possums) galloping over her tin roof.

Ever since she can remember, she has been fascinated by stories about canny fairy godmothers, heroic goose girls and handsome princes disguised as bears. She is particularly inspired by those characters that tend to fall into the cracks of the usual tales.

She is the author of several short stories, including Pretty Jennie Greenteeth, which won the 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story. The Beast's Heart is her first novel.

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