Charlie Glass's Slippers: A Very Modern Fairy Tale

by Holly McQueen

Overview

In this delightful, clever spin on Cinderella, Charlie Glass—a heroine as loveable as Cannie Shapiro and Bridget Jones—inherits her father’s shoe empire and snatches up a drop-dead-gorgeous, multi-millionaire Prince Charming. But is he truly the key to her happily ever after?

When Charlie’s beloved father, iconic shoe designer Elroy Glass, dies after a long illness, everyone expects that he’ll leave his business to his glamorous wife and eldest daughters. After all, they’ve been running the company for years. But Elroy surprises everyone from beyond the grave: at the will reading, it’s announced that his fashion empire has been left to Charlie, his youngest—and plumpest—daughter.

Before she can run the company, Charlie decides she needs to make a few changes in her life. After several weeks at a California boot camp, she returns to London a new woman: thinner, blonder, and ready to revitalize the Elroy Glass brand. But as she’ll soon discover, a good esthetician and a killer pair of stilettos can only go so far, and there’s more to reinvention—and running a fashion empire—than meets the eye.

Endlessly entertaining, surprising, and ultimately inspiring, Charlie Glass’s Slippers is a modern-day fairytale about finding your own magic and transforming yourself from within.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476727066
Publisher:	Atria Books
Publication date:	08/05/2014
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
Sales rank:	116,020
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Holly McQueen is the author of four novels—The Glamorous (Double) Life of Isabel Bookbinder, Fabulously Fashionable, Confetti Confidential, and There Goes the Bride. She lives in London with her husband.

Editorial Reviews

05/15/2014
Charlie Glass, like Cinderella, has been traumatized her whole life by her nasty stepmother and two stepsisters. She cares for her father, shoe designer Elroy Glass, during a long illness and when he dies, he leaves the controlling interest in the business to Charlie instead of her admittedly more glamorous siblings. This inspires Charlie to transform herself from frumpy to fabulous via boot camp in California and a makeover. Then she is ready to shake up the business and make it worthy of her father's legacy. Along the way Charlie hooks up with a modern-day Prince Charming, finds out how hard it is to look effortlessly gorgeous, and uncovers some information that might help her solve the decades-long mystery of her mother's death. VERDICT This reimagined fairy tale is a humorous and fast-paced read that will appeal to fans of classic chick lit à la Jane Green, Helen Fielding, or Sophie Kinsella.—Karen Core, Detroit P.L.

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