A Curse Dark as Gold (Hardcover) by Elizabeth C Bunce

from DeltaQueen50

A Curse As Dark As Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce is an adaptation of the fairy tale, Rumplestiltskin. The author has taken this folktale and made it her own in this very creative story. As two young woman take over the family business upon their father's death they find that the business is totterin...

from cjbh

This novel set in the 1700's is based on the old Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale. "A Curse Dark As Gold" by Elizabeth C. Bunce was selected as one of the "2009 Kansas Notable Books" and one I very much enjoyed reading. Two teen-age sisters left alone after the death of their father and living on a sho...

from connlibrary

In this twisted Rumpelstiltskin-like story set in a mill town on the verge of the industrial revolution, Charlotte Miller, the orphaned miller's daughter, struggles to run her father's woolen mill in the face of ill luck and a family curse that she refuses to believe in. Those who know the origin...

from librariankristin

When her father dies, seventeen-year-old Charlotte must struggle to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face on an overwhelming mortgage. When a strange man who claims he can spin straw into cold appears, Charlotte must way the cost of saving the mill. This first novel is a very fine fra...

from twonickels

This is not a simple re-telling. Rumplestiltskin serves as the barest bones for the tale Elizabeth C. Bunce builds in A Curse Dark As Gold. She picks at the nagging questions and inconsistencies that are at the heart of the fairytale - what could possess any person to give up their own child? why...