What if you could have ‘All You’ve Ever Wanted‘? In Joan Aiken’s fertile imagination this is exactly the sort of wish that could go wildly wrong; in fact she had such fun with the idea that it led to a collection of stories, this particular one providing the title of her first book, published nearly […]
What if you could have ‘All You’ve Ever Wanted‘? In Joan Aiken’s fertile imagination this is exactly the sort of wish that could go wildly wrong; in fact she had such fun with the idea that it led to a collection of stories, this particular one providing the title of her first book, published nearly […]
What if you could have ‘All You’ve Ever Wanted‘? Joan Aiken liked to imagine just this sort of dangerous wish going horribly wrong, and it became the title story of her first book. The wishes in question are not made by her sensible heroine, the ill-starred Matilda, an orphan of course, who is brought […]
Can’t wait to read this one. I’ve just started the Felix Brooke series, so I’m deep in 19th century Europe for now.
Have ‘All But a Few’ on my shelves, which I haven’t read since the 70s, but I do remember this delightful premise — the opposite of the dilemma that the very young Sleeping Beauty faced but no less disastrous!