Mirror Mirror

by Gregory Maguire

Genres: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Renaissance; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm – and the world comes to Montefiore.

In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia – decadent children of a wicked pope – no one can claim innocence for very long. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a years-long quest, he leaves Bianca under the – so to speak – of Lucrezia.

She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but salvation can be found in the dark forest as well.

A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror gives fresh life to the classic story of Snow White – and has a truth and beauty all its own.

A HarperAudio production.

Release date: September 28, 2004

Publisher: William Morrow

Print pages: 320