Read fairy tales and we'll all live happily ever after!

Sussex author Evelyn Foster is in print with Frozen Fairytales at £7.99.
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“It is aimed at all ages and features tales set in countryside settings throughout the world, showing how much we all have in common,” she says.

“I wanted to write it as I felt people’s spirits needed lifting, for obvious reasons, right now, and fairy tales have inspired me all my life.

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“They always make me feel better during bad moments and I’ve been an avid reader since I was small. Fairy tales, of course, as Dickens said, help and comfort children and adults more than anything.

“Readers are reassured by Rapunzel finding resource in herself (her hair) and by someone as small as a child being able to outwit a giant.

“This collection contains one where the hero is a doctor, and another where a boy and his grandmother triumphantly survive a plague.

“The book is also, of course, hoping to give pleasure to all those children who love the Frozen films.

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“I hoped, too, it might help parents and grandparents who are wondering what to get children for lockdown or birthday or Christmas.

“The book aims to inspire and cheer readers with all the happy endings. It’s notable too that several fairytale heroines have to spend a time in lockdown – in towers!

“There is no sequel, but I will have another book published next year, of myth, fairytale and magic in England, especially Sussex. Fairytales foster courtesy, compassion, courage and hope – whatever your age.

“The mostly rural settings encourage care of the countryside.

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“If we make them a part of our reading life, we will all live more happily ever after!”

Evelyn, who lives in Uckfield, added: “I have worked as an author, storyteller and actress, have spoken on fairy tales at the Royal Festival Hall and appeared in fantasy art as a dryad.”

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