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For a fairy-tale escape “? complete with a castle “? check out Eva Ibbotson’s latest princess story. Tessa, also known Princess Theresa-Maria of Pfaffenstein, has given up her home and title to work as a wardrobe mistress for a poor opera company in Vienna. She seems content to sew buttons and comb wigs, anything to work in the arts, but an encounter with the ubiquitous Prince Charming (this is a fairy tale, after all) threatens to throw all of that out the window.
There are the hidden identities, the mean fianc
This article appears in Apr 29 – May 5, 2009.