Barefoot in the Dark by Lynne Barrett-Lee is a story about fairy-tales which an adult like me had read and so loving it very much.
The story has a modern concept to it though. Like a modern Cinderella of some sorts. Enters the character of Hope and she loses not her glass slippers
as in Cinderella but her trainers instead. That makes me laugh for a bit while reading. She is a widow and definitely not being happy at the moment. And the one who finds her shoe..? None other than a charming guy with a charming name called Jack Valentine. Now Jack is ...