![]() Cue epic quest to end the curse and turn him human. Only she's forbidden to light a candle and look at him - and when she does (because people in fairy tales always do) it triggers a curse that forces them apart. ![]() He stays a bear during the day, but at night he comes to her in the form of a man. It's a moving story, but what's to retell?Īnd then I read another, lesser-known fairy tale a bit like Beauty and the Beast but where the beast is a polar bear and the girl marries him right at the start. Beauty learns to love somebody who looks like a monster and Beast learns to love despite the monstrous parts of himself. What drives me to write retellings is finding the holes, the mysteries that don't add up. I read Robin McKinley's Beauty and watched the Disney movie, and I enjoyed them both. But because, while I've always loved fairy tales, I never thought I could retell Beauty and the Beast. Not because I didn't plan to be a writer - I have been plotting world domination through novel-writing since I was 8 years old. Rosamund: If you had told me 10 years ago that I was going to publish a novel about Beauty and the Beast, I would not have believed you. Rosamund shares here what drew her to a Beauty who's cruel. ![]() ![]() HEA gets the privilege of unveiling the book trailer for Rosamund Hodge's upcoming Cruel Beauty, which comes out in January. ![]()
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