3 Quotes & Sayings By Samantha Ellis

Samantha Ellis is an English author, broadcaster, and writer of fiction. She's the author of four novels including The Devil You Know which was shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers. Her first novel, The Memory Box, was published in 2008 to critical acclaim. Ellis won the 2008 British Book Awards Young Writer of the Year Award, has been shortlisted for the Authors' Club First Novel Award and longlisted for the Costa Novel Award Read more

She is currently working on a new novel called The Darkest Rose.

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After three years of English at Cambridge, being force-fed literary theory, I was almost convinced that literature was all coded messages about Marxism and the death of the self. I crawled out of the post-structuralist desert thirsty for heroines I could cry and laugh with. I was jaded. I craved trash. Samantha Ellis
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I love the fact that Perrault's princess goes on living and struggling after she finds her prince, and that Perrault doesn't shrink from the weirdness of Sleeping Beauty being over a hundred years old but having the body of a lithe young thing. When the prince wakes her, he considers telling her she's wearing the kind of clothes his grandmother used to wear, but decides it's best not to mention it just yet. Samantha Ellis