The evil fairy seeks revenge for an insult inflicted on her four hundred years ago. And here’s a new insult: she wasn’t invited to the christening of the newborn princess! And therefore the fairy casts a terrible spell: when the princess turns twenty-one, she will prick her finger with the tip of the spindle and plunge into an endless sleep, from which no one will awaken her.

And probably everything would have happened that way, but she intervened fate in the face of the young fairy Catriona, who simply stole the little princess to save her. Catriona hides with her baby with her aunt, also a fairy, in a remote village, where no one suspects what she has done. But the villain continues to persistently search for the princess...

A surprisingly poetic fantasy by Robin McKinley on the theme of the fairy tale about Sleeping Beauty.

For the first time in Russian!