What if the heroine, a sensible maximalist who always tried to do everything right, suddenly becomes “lost”? Is she going to marry a “decent man”, but ends up in bed with a gangster heir, who is also outrageously younger than herself? Is it worth fighting against fate, and how not to confuse fate with someone else’s will? There are many difficult “ifs” in Galina Marcus’s novel “A Fairy Tale with a Happy Beginning.” This book is about the most important kinship, which rich and poor, happy and unhappy, equally crave, all-all-all - about the kinship of souls. And about the fairy tale, the faith in which this kinship reveals. What kind of ending should the “Fairy Tale with a Happy Beginning” have? Don't rush to answer...