While other fairies bless Princess Amethyst of Phantasmorania with traditional gifts of wisdom, grace and courage when she turns six days old, Fairy Crustacea grants her an exceptional one: ‘I am going to give you something that will bring you more happiness than all these fal-lals and fripperies put together. You shall be Ordinary!’ Thus begins the life of poor ordinary princess Amy, who has freckles, a snub nose and mousy hair. While her six beautiful, perfectly groomed older sisters marry handsome princes, Amy cannot find a prince charming enough to fall in love with her. The King makes desperate plans to find a suitor for her, but Amy will have none of it! She runs away from home, even though it means she cannot live as a princess any longer and has to work as a kitchen maid instead. But she also makes a new friend, who calls himself a man-of-all-work. The ordinary princess-turned-kitchen-maid now happily plays, sings songs and makes a little house in the forest with the ordinary man-of-all-work, until Nurse Marta comes along and spills her extraordinary secret…
Quest for Self-Fulfilment in the Novels of Anita Desai
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