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‘Amazing’ Meg Rosoff ‘Extraordinary’ Maggie Alderson ‘What some might call beauty I find monstrous’ In the age of the Faerie Queene Elizabeth I Lord Francis Rodermere starts to lay waste to a forest. Furious the sorceress who dwells there scrawls a curse into the bark of the first oak he fells: A faerie boy will be born to you whose beauty will be your death. Ten years later Lord Rodermere’s son Beau is born – and all who encounter him are struck by his great beauty. Meanwhile many miles away in a London alchemist’s cellar lives Randa – a beast deemed too monstrous to see the light of day. And so begins a timeless tale of love tragedy and revenge… A stunning retelling of Beauty and the Beast
