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Rose Doran Dreams: A psychological fairy tale Kindle Edition

by Berlie W Doherty (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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When she is a little girl, Rose Doran's beloved brother leaves her in the middle of a fairy tale, goes to war, and never returns. From then on, she escapes into mythology and stories, and is set on a path that will lead her inexorably to a psychological breakdown. Home life is one of lovelessness and loneliness. She falls in love with the glamorous, tap-dancing William who abandons her, along with his baby, Edmund. Rose seeks security in an unconsummated marriage to Gordon, and finds herself once more isolated and imprisoned by the emptiness of her life. She yearns for romance and fulfilment. Then she meets Paedric, her mysterious neighbour, and her colourless life is transformed by the powerful exoticism of his imagination. She is seduced by his magical storytelling – with frightening consequences. Can she ever break away from his toxic enchantment?

From the best-selling, award-winning author of over 60 books for all ages, Berlie Doherty writes novels, plays, stories, poetry and opera libretti. Several of her novels have been dramatised, by herself and others, for radio, television and the stage. She is published by Penguin, Harper Collins, Random House, Andersen Press and others, and is translated into 21 languages. She has won many awards including the Carnegie Medal twice (Dear Nobody and Granny was a Buffer Girl), and the Writers’ Guild award twice (Dear Nobody and Daughter of the Sea), received a Boston Globe-Horn Honor, and was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren award. She has received an Honorary Doctorate. Her subjects cover many different genres, from folk and fairy tales, ghost stories and love stories, fantasy and historical fiction to enduring contemporary family novels. She was born in Liverpool and now lives in the Derbyshire Peak District.

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‘Rose Doran Dreams is a spell-binding tale. Its off-beat story world is beautifully realised, its atmosphere subtly sensual with a sinister undertow. This is an utterly original, vivid, gripping, and sometimes disturbing, read.’ – Lesley Glaister
‘The book is wonderful … such a brilliant mix of gritty social realism/psychological horror/fantasy … understated deep emotions and wild, phantasmagoric excesses … reminded me at times of Angela Carter.’ – Adèle Geras
‘I found her story tragic, poignant, and unbearably moving. It is a book that will stay with me long after the last line.’ – Celia Rees
‘I love the book, it’s extraordinary, powerful and disturbing.’ – Danuta Reah
‘As the fairy tales she hears and tells become deeper and darker, Rose herself is transformed into a magical but captive princess, a Princess in a Tower. Can she ever escape? Berlie Doherty has written a wonderfully evocative novel.’ – Jane Rogers
‘This is a mesmeric tale, beautifully told, of how we can inhabit the enchantment and richness of another’s dreams.’ – Bryony Doran

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‘Doherty’s second ‘adult’ novel is proof that she can spellbind a reader of any age … She delights, surprises, disturbs and moves the reader, and does it with admirable finesse’ – Time Out
‘The novel is compelling as an account of the dangerous development of a compensatory imagination’ – The Times Literary Supplement
‘Doherty’s novel has a strange hypnotic strength and dramatises powerfully the dangers of blurring the boundaries between fantasy and reality’ – Sunday Times
‘Doherty’s fable warns that the journeys of the mind can be more perilous than the real thing, especially for those setting out without a ticket home’ – She
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09TFBV7PP
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jean Books (March 31, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 31, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2561 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 309 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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Berlie Doherty writes novels, plays, stories, poetry and opera libretti for adults and children of all ages, and is translated into over twenty languages. She has written over 60 books, including her best-selling Street Child and much-loved Blue John. Several of her novels have been dramatised for radio, television and the stage. She has won many awards including the Carnegie Medal twice (Dear Nobody and Granny was a Buffer Girl), and the Writers’ Guild award twice. (Dear Nobody and Daughter of the Sea), received a Boston Globe-Horn Honor, and was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren award. She has received an Honorary Doctorate and has travelled the world speaking at literature festivals. Her subjects cover many different genres, from folk and fairy tales, ghost stories and love stories, fantasy and historical fiction to enduring contemporary family novels. She was born in Liverpool and now lives in the Derbyshire Peak District.

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mauveone
5.0 out of 5 stars Rose Dorian's Story.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2022
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I can believe the main character, Rosie Doran. My childhood was through the war years, with all its doing without. Neither of us had what you could call a proper childhood, which of course, as teenagers we were not prepared for real life.

Rose’s brother who cared for her while her parents were working. He went off to war, Rose had then to help her parents in their shop. Going to school for Rose was a relief, with an understanding Teacher. On rare occasions when she reached her teens, her parents allowed going dancing with her school friends. Here she saw a different side of life….. The Tap Dancer who entertained between the dances….. Who could resist the dark flashing eyes and twinkle toes?

This is where Rose has to grow up and her life takes one of its twists.

I don’t want to give away the secrets: Berlie has written a story that stretches from the mundane side of life to the fantastic. A well written book by an accomplished author. I enjoyed this book and, I hope she writes more adult books!
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Bryony Doran
5.0 out of 5 stars An Enchanted tale that stays around to haunt you long after you have finished it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2022
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Rose Doran Dreams - to embroider the dark cloth of her life.
The last fairy tale Rose’s beloved brother Desmond ever tells her before he goes off to war is of a beautiful princess whose name was Rose. One day a wicked fairy puts a spell on her to fall asleep and never wake up unless she is kissed by a handsome prince.

From that day forth, Rose, her existence ruled by men, sleepwalks through life.
We, the reader, dance with Rose through her imaginary world and it is not until her husband steps on her dreams that we are all returned to reality. After that Rose sleeps for many years until one day she wakes to find that she is the only one who can break the spell, and so taking her destiny into her own hands, she kisses the prince.

This is mesmeric tale, beautifully told, of how we can inhabit the enchantment and richness of another’s dreams.
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Mrs Mugwump
5.0 out of 5 stars This story will stay with you.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2022
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After Rose Doran's beloved brother leaves forever in the middle of telling her a fairy tale, she tries to compensate by moving in and out of fantasies, stories and dreams, loving them more than life. Her existence is determined by men rather than herself. Rose retreats further and further into her (and someone else's) imagination until she has a breakdown, as if having a post partum psychosis without an actual birth.
A distant train travels through the novel, playing the rhythm of a kind of normality out of Rose's reach.
The writing is disturbing and sensual, tipping from the beautiful into the grotesque - I have a phobia of eels, (the creatures, not the band!) and certain passages were almost too much for me.
This moving and almost hallucinatory story will stay with you. Read it.
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