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    Fairy Tales for Grownups

    Feb 20, 2022 3 minutes
    Interview by PAUL LITTLE

      focused on writing books for young people, James Norcliffe has completed his first novel for adults. Paradoxically, it’s based on one of the best-known fairy tales, “The Frog King” — the one about the princess, the frog, the kiss and the prince. Two stories are told in parallel — a contemporary love story of sorts, and an historical love story, written by a character in the contemporary one, involving the Brothers

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