The Trouble With Fairy Tales
A new memoir from bestselling author Plum Johnson
Plum Johnson’s eagerly anticipated second memoir is a wise and insightful reflection on romantic relationships, exploring how we so often sacrifice our independence and identity for love.
Ripe with humorous anecdotes, charming insights, and aching revelations, Plum looks back on her own lifetime of fairy tales. Bewitched by characters as various as Prince Charming, The Pied Piper, and Bluebeard, she reinvents herself along the way, from obedient child to rebel wife to successful writer and artist, proving that it can take many years and detours to fulfil the most important relationship - the one with ourselves.
The Trouble with Fairy Tales urges us to turn inward to reach a deeper understanding of our own tangled relationships. Funny and resonant, it is a striking personal narrative that will stir and inspire women of all ages.
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In The Press
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"Reading The Trouble with Fairy Tales is like a delightful conversation with a witty, wise, wry friend who splits open those myths we grow up with, the ones that both sustain us and entrap us. Plum Johnson has done it again."
Jeannette Walls, #1 bestselling author ofThe Glass Castle and Hang the Moon
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“Plum Johnson upends every cliché about growing old … I was enchanted by page seven, laughing out loud by page nine and hooked until the end.”
─Roxana Spicer, bestselling author of The Traitor’s Daughter
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"A generous and often hilarious account of a woman's life eagerly and creatively lived."
--Kathy Page, award-winning author of Dear Evelyn and In This Faulty Machine
About
Photography/Creative Michael Rafelson
Plum Johnson is an author and artist living in Toronto. Her previous memoir, They Left Us Everything, was nominated for the Leacock Medal for Humour, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and was the winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize and the 2016 OLA Evergreen Award.
Contact
I’m currently on a book tour and am not able to answer all messages - but please know they will be read! If you are interested in hosting a book club, either in-person or Zoom, please write that in the form below. For interview requests, please contact Natasha Tsakiris: ntsakiris@penguinrandomhouse.com
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Plum Johnson