9781914613524

07/05/26

HB

352 pages

SIGNED COPY

From acclaimed mythologist and psychologist Dr Sharon Blackie, bestselling author of If Women Rose Rooted and Hagitude

‘Fairy tales matter because at the heart of every one of them is transformation.’

In a world in which all the old certainties seem to be crumbling, it’s hard not to feel we have lost our way. In Ripening, Sharon Blackie insists that fairy tales are precisely the stories we need for such times.

Long before they became bywords for people-pleasing princesses, these old stories – passed down to us through generations by our peasant ancestors – told us everything that women need to learn about the world. They might be set in difficult and dangerous times, but they require their heroines to face the unfaceable and dig deep for previously unimagined inner resources. They teach us to be savvy, inspire us to grow in confidence, show us how to be bold and claim the future we dream of.