The Trouble with Fairy Tales

A Memoir

De: Plum Johnson

Narrado por: Plum Johnson

The long-awaited second memoir from Plum Johnson, bestselling author of They Left Us Everything.

The Trouble with Fairy Tales is a wise and insightful reflection on the relationships that sprawl across a lifetime. In it, Plum explores how we often sacrifice our independence and identity in our love lives, falling for the fairytale notion of “happily ever after”, and how it can take years, and many detours, to fulfil the most important relationship—the one with ourselves.

Ripe with the humorous anecdotes, charming insights, and aching revelations so characteristic of Plum’s style, the book is our window onto her reinvention of self as she moves through the various roles that many women inhabit: from compliant child to loving mother, rebel wife, artist, and successful writer.

Plum’s writing urges her listeners to turn inward to reach a deeper understanding of their own tangled relationships. Funny and resonant, The Trouble with Fairy Tales is the kind of striking personal narrative that will stir and inspire women of all ages.

©2025 Plum Johnson (P)2025 Penguin Random House Canada

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"Reading The Trouble with Fairy Tales is like a delightful conversation with a witty, wise, wry friend who splits open those myths we grow up with, the ones that both sustain us and entrap us. Plum Johnson has done it again."─Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon

"A fascinating cautionary tale told with verve and wit, The Trouble with Fairy Tales explores the complexity of our individual realities and the hollowness at the heart of the very things we are taught to value and desire."─Mary Lawson, internationally bestselling author of Crow Lake and A Town Called Solace

“Prince Charming, Bluebeard, the Pied Piper and more─Plum Johnson brings to vivid, infuriating, seductive life the whole repertoire of mythic men around whom women were expected to centre their lives. Turning every stereotype inside out and upside down, she is funny, thought-provoking and devastatingly honest. . . . A tonic for readers of every age.”─Katherine Ashenburg, award-winning author of Margaret’s New Look and The Mourner’s Dance