![]() ![]() Iris is heartbroken the first time she sees her likeness on canvas, but she begins to understand the function of art. Finally, a portrait painter agrees to hire them as servants, specifying that Iris will be his model. But the practical Dutch are fighting the plague and have no sympathy for the needy family. She, her mother, Margarethe, and her retarded sister, Ruth, flee their English country village in the wake of her father's violent death, hoping to find welcome in Margarethe's native Holland. Iris Fisher is an intelligent young woman struggling with poverty and plain looks. ![]() Here he presents an equally beguiling reconstruction of the Cinderella story, set in the 17th century, in which the protagonist is not the beautiful princess-to-be but her plain stepsister. The inspired concept of Maguire's praised debut, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, was not a fluke. ![]()
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