{"id":1588366,"date":"2018-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/?p=1588366"},"modified":"2020-09-09T21:12:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T01:12:06","slug":"divine-reads-all-the-ever-afters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/divine-reads-all-the-ever-afters\/","title":{"rendered":"DIVINE Reads: All the Ever Afters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.ca\/9780062798206\/all-the-ever-afters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella\u2019s Stepmother<\/strong><\/a> by Danielle Teller is not just a different take on a fairy tale, it\u2019s a book about life lessons. The following is from the book jacket: \u201cCompelling Fiction Often Obscures the Humble Truth\u2026\u201d To that end, it retells the story of Cinderella\u2019s \u201cevil\u201d step-mother Agnes, from her own viewpoint. It gives you insight into the one dimensional character from the classic fairy tale.<\/p>\n<p>Agnes was a girl, born into a poor family, who entered into life as a servant, an assistant laundress to be exact, at the tender age of ten. Treated miserably, in the nature of Cinderella, with years of servitude ahead of her, Agnes somehow finds a small place for herself at Aviceford Manor showing kindness to the owner, Sir Emont-Vis-de Loup. She eventually finds escape from the hard labour of the manor for the relative ease of life as a housemaid for Abbess Elfilda, Emont\u2019s sister-in-law.\u00a0 She falls in love, experiences great success and great loss, somehow ending up as little Elfilda\u2019s (AKA Ella, AKA Cinderella) nursemaid and then lady of the manor.\u00a0 Once she becomes Ella\u2019s stepmother, you will see that things aren\u2019t necessarily the way they seem to appear in fairy tales.<\/p>\n<p>This retelling of an old classic is supposed to be similar to Wicked, but Teller weaves the story in an easier to understand, more humane way.\u00a0 The plot focuses on Agnes\u2019s point of view only, and in the tale, we learn that perception and reality are very different things.\u00a0 We learn through the various twists and turns that befall Agnes that the heroine of a story isn\u2019t always the beautiful princess, but the resilient woman who survives whatever life throws at her.<\/p>\n<p>All the Ever Afters is <a href=\"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/divine-reads-no-judgments-by-meg-cabot\/\">the perfect escape<\/a> to days of yore where knights aren\u2019t always the hero and stepmothers aren\u2019t always evil.\u00a0 It\u2019s the divine Reads\u2019 pick for June.\u00a0 What\u2019s on your reading list this summer?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1549843\" src=\"https:\/\/divine.ca\/2018\/06\/book-int.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"869\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella\u2019s Stepmother by Danielle Teller is not just a different take on a fairy tale, it\u2019s a book about life lessons. 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