The Girls at the Kingfisher Club : A Novel (Paperback)

from MrsLee

A modern retelling of the tale "12 Dancing Princesses," this story is enchanting. Twelve sisters, locked away by their father from the world, manage to find a way to escape to the nightlife of New York city in the 1920s. The story of what became of them is told with the voice and mood of the fair...

from DeltaQueen50

The Girls At the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine is a reworking of the Twelve Dancing Princesses fairy tale. The story is set during the 1920's in New York City and the princesses in this story are twelve sisters who are controlled by a distant, unloving father who barely acknowledges them...

from Daumari

Read half of it at work, then finished it when I got home, whoops. The Girls at the Kingfisher Club is a retelling of the 12 Dancing Princesses fairy tale, except instead of the random stranger who stalks the girls in a magical cloak, the sisters are in the drivers seat of their own story. You'd ...

from Electablue

A jazz age retelling of the fairy tale of the 12 dancing princesses. I enjoyed the story, but don't really remember the original fairy tale. I am going to have to go find it to compare. The modern retelling of fairy tales seems to be a very popular trend, and one that I enjoy as I read every fair...

from tldegray

An amazing, astounding, feminist retelling of a fairy tale, and also a gorgeous look at life in the 1920s U.S. The sisters are so different from each other--each one comes alive on the page. I anxiously followed each sister's story, hoping for every one to get her happy ending. (Provided by publi...