![]() ![]() Fairytale themes permeate many of the stories in her mosaic novels Sourdough and Other Stories (reviewed by Faith) and The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings (reviewed by Lou Murphy) and even those stories which didn’t have a clear (to me) fairytale origin still felt like they did. ![]() I’m going to start with Angela Slatter because she’s my favourite fairytale reteller. There are as many interpretations of fairytale retellings as there are authors writing them and plenty of Aussie women have delved into them. Sometimes that just means transposing them into a contemporary setting (with or without magic) but it can also mean twisting them into unrecognisable shapes to expose darkness at their hearts (or in the hearts of us all). Fairytale retellings are the fantasy subgenre that takes apart and rebuilds them into something new. They are culturally so pervasive, in many parts of the world, that most people have had some exposure to them at some point in their lives, even if only through Disney movies. ![]() Some of the oldest fantasy stories are fairytales. ![]()
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