Stepsister

''In an ancient city by the sea, three sisters - a maiden, a mother, and a crone - are drawing maps by candlelight. Sombre, with piercing grey eyes, they are the three Fates, and every map is a human life . . .''

Stepsister takes up where Cinderella''s tale ends. We meet Isabelle, the younger of Cinderella''s two stepsisters. Ella is considered beautiful; stepsister Isabelle is not. Isabelle is fea...