Her journey to save her sister is spun from fairy-tale cloth but entirely Kingfisher’s own. Marra’s second sister has been married off to the same prince, and Marra fears for her life. Her eldest sister was married to a prince, but she has died in a way that suggests her princely husband might have been involved. Or she would be - if she didn’t have to rescue her sister. Marra, age 30, is the youngest of three princesses, shyly stowed away in a convent, minding her own business. Tally describes her novel “Nettle and Bone” as “a deeply satisfying and darkly funny feminist fairy tale.” One of her favorite examples comes from an often genre-defying North Carolina author: T. Angie Tally of The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, N.C., has been on the lookout for interesting books that aren’t teen coming-of-age stories nor end-of-life remembrances but have protagonists who are in the middle of life.
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