Happy Ever After: 3 book bind-up

Three excellent stories based on three famous fairy tales....concerning three adolescent schoolgirls living in a modern girls' boarding school.....Egerton Hall. Very-well written, believable, and only disappointing when you reach the end of the trilogy. The three stories have been previously published individually....but here they are brought together. A really good bargain!

I've never read a book set in this era before (60's) so it was interesting and appealed to me from the start. I think the Author has been very clever in the way she has interwoven the stories of the characters with fairy-tale heroines and has managed to do this in a subtle way and more importantly in a realistic way...I did wonder how the sleeping beauty type tale would pan out but...Yes it worked. I was expecting a more `Malory Towers' theme to the story but that wasn't the case. When the story first starts I did feel there was a sinister element to the plot but this tapered off and then appeared again with more serious consequences. But why this book was labelled unsuitable for young readers was a bit beyond me because as an avid YA Fiction reader, this was pretty tame compared to some stuff I've read that is actually written for young readers

I was quite disappointed by this book - the ideas were really interesting, the retelling of 3 classic fairytales set in the early 1960's but it felt a bit simplistic in the writing style at times. I think the author could have done more with it - there were some really great scenes that were key to setting up denouements in each story that I felt were underwritten or glossed over. It was an okay read and a pleasant enough way to pass the time but no more.

Three stories belonging to three girls at the end of their boarding school life in the 60s, these are funny, moving, thought-provoking and brave stories, written by somebody who clearly knows that world very well indeed. The fairy tale references are subtle and surprising and clever.

really didn't like this...I found it unimaginative and predictable...didn't even go on to read last 2 stories...disappointed as potentially sounded quite interesting and was hoping for a clever 'twist' but it didn't happen...just my view!

On fthe fist books to remix classical tales . As it is literary book in my seconnd lang and thou lang is very simple i cant use it anymore for the sake of my other works

to all 3

Not too impressed with this. The characters were vapid and unlikable. There were plot holes. There was some originality but not much.