Spindle's end - robin mckinley

This New York Times bestseller is a masterful retelling of Sleeping Beauty.

Cursed by the evil fairy Pernicia, Princess Briar-Rose is kidnapped by the young fairy Katriona in order to save her and is raised by Katriona and her aunt.

But the determined Pernicia, intent on revenge for a defeat 400 years before, wont give up her search.

The evil fairy Pernicia has set a curse on Princess Briar-Rose: she is fated to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an endless, poisoned sleep.

Katriona, a young fairy, kidnaps the princess in order to save her; she and her aunt raise the child in their small village, where no one knows her true identity.

But Pernicia is looking for her, intent on revenge for a defeat four hundred years old.

Robin McKinleys masterful version of Sleeping Beauty is, like all of her work, a remarkable literary feat.