[Unabridged audiobook with text]

 

When Princess Eleanor (Ella for short) is born, a fairy named Lucinda blesses her with the gift of obedience - meaning she must obey ANYTHING that ANYONE tells her. As Ella grows older she learns that this "gift" is more of a curse and she is determined to find Lucinda and have the spell reversed. Along the way, Ella must do battle with her yicky stepmother and stepsisters-to-be. She also falls in love with handsome Prince Charmont. Now she's more determined than ever to make things work out. Find out if she succeeds in this entertaining tale.

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Book 3 'Lucinda's Secret' and 4 'The Ironwood Tree' The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. The books chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into the eponymous Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of faeries that they never knew existed.

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Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey, which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the Cornish son of a Plymouth Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory. They meet on the boat over to Australia, and discover that they are both obsessive gamblers. Lucinda bets Oscar that he cannot transport a glass church from Sydney to a remote settlement at Bellingen, some 400 km up the New South Wales coast. This bet changes both their lives forever.