The sisters' wealthy father loses all his money when his merchant fleet is drowned in a storm, and the family moves to a village far away. as if 'honourable' were the best that could be said of me. I wasn't really very fond of my given name, Honour, either. īy the time it was evident that I was going to let the family down by being plain, I'd been called Beauty for over six years. He succeeded in explaining grace and hope, but he had some difficulty trying to make the concept of honour understandable to a five-year-old. My father still likes to tell the story of how I acquired my odd nickname: I had come to him for further information when I first discovered that our names meant something besides you-come-here. Our literal-minded mother named us Grace, Hope, and Honour. The New York Times–bestselling author of Rose Daughter reimagines the classic French fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast.
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