After running away from home to escape an unwanted marriage, Ismay takes up a position as a scullery maid in a large London house. Worked ragged by the housekeeper and bullied by the other maids, she resigns herself to a life of misery and isolation … until the night she helps a beautiful suffragette evade capture by the police.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- In this realistic re-imagining of the Cinderella fairytale set in Edwardian London at the height of the women’s suffrage movement, we see what fate befalls poor Cinders without a fairy godmother’s magic to help unite her with the woman of her dreams. Will she make it to the ball? Will she be liberated from a life of servitude? And more importantly, will she get her happy ever after? CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN THE ANTHOLOGY MOSAICS
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