'"Luck," hissed the maiden. "Risk," the mother spat. "Hazard," snarled the crone. "I prefer Chance. It has a nicer ring," the man said, with a wink.' 'Stepsister' is a retelling of Cinderella, except it's told from the perspective of one of the stepsisters. I am a sucker for Cinderella , so when this...
'It was not quite the context in which I had imagined Alexander Platt would ask me for my help. In my fantasies, it was from the other side of an operating table, in a time of crisis, with everyone panicking over a tangled intestine no one could unravel until I stepped up.' The...
