{"product_id":"modern-fairies","title":"Modern Fairies","description":"\u003cp\u003eVersailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform \u003ci\u003eContes de Fees\u003c\/i\u003e - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, \u003ci\u003eThe Modern Fairies\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Modern Fairies","offer_id":46883716759749,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-241-67246-4.jpg?v=1788894663","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/modern-fairies","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}