Pepelina, The Slavic Cinderella

About the Book

Pepelina is the pen-wielding Cinderella who eats sweet fruit from her father’s orchard and dreams of publishing a book. When her father suddenly dies, everyone rejects, mocks and silences her stories. Her only chance to publish her bird story is the ball, but even the sweetness of the midnight quickly turns sour. Voiceless and betrayed, will Pepelina rise from the ashes, and fly on the wings of fire with her story before old enemies cage her and grief ends her? Or will heavenly wrath, and heavy ancestral truths bury the broken world in ash before her sacred story can heal it? Writerly ever after has never been this sought-after.

About the Author

Mary-Anne Frost is a writer of fairytales and fantasy stories. Raised in the family of maternal oral storytellers, she grew up surrounded with Slavic myths and fairytales. Mary-Anne was first educated as a storyteller by creating an imaginative fictional world and characters with her older brother Darko, watching Disney cartoons and playing a famous computer game ‘Heroes of Might and Magic III’ thanks to her dear uncle Bogdan. Years later, Mary-Anne studied English and Cultural Studies and History. Focusing on Shakespeare’s film adaptations, she discovered her passion for creative retellings. Currently, Mary-Anne lives in a quiet suburbia and writes in silence, solitude and stillness with her feline baby Felix.