A spellbinding reimagining of The Thousand and One Nights
Description
Before she was the legendary Persian queen who spun a thousand tales, Shaherazade was a girl who saw something she shouldn't have.She told the king.She thought she was doing what was right.She couldn't imagine what was to come.Fear spreads through the city as the king executes his unfaithful wife and, when this doesn't sate his rage, goes on to wed and behead a new woman night after night. Shaherazade must do something, anything, to halt what she has set in motion; not least of all when, aged nineteen, she becomes his next bride. As the sun sets on her wedding night, Shaherazade begins to weave a tale that will go down in history.If you had to tell one story to save your life, what would it be?
