“ Angela Carter who started bringing me back to fairy tales. Her revisionist stories, in The Bloody Chamber (1979), Samantha Ellis
“ I love the fact that Perrault's princess goes on living and struggling after she finds her prince, and that Perrault doesn't shrink from the weirdness of Sleeping Beauty being over a hundred years old… Samantha Ellis
“ After three years of English at Cambridge, being force-fed literary theory, I was almost convinced that literature was all coded messages about Marxism and the death of the self. I crawled out of the… Samantha Ellis
