The Spindle is the classic fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, retold from the dark fairy's point of view.

  Set in the Celtic world of the fifth century, the Faeries, elemental spirits charged with caring for the earth and all its inhabitants, are being forgotten and facing extinction. In a desperate bid for survival, sweet, sycophantic Violet, faerie of beauty, love and dreams, breaks the faerie law and gives the barren Queen a child, threatening to dismantle the future of human history. Her sister Nor, the faerie of death, who desires to be truly loved though she is shunned by all mankind, must right Violet's wrong and restore Princess Rose to her correct place in time before it's too late. Her plan is threatened by a prideful King desperate to maintain his power, the kind, poor gardener Arthur whose destiny is endangered by his deep love for the Princess he was never supposed to meet, and Princess Rose herself, an intelligent, passionate young woman fated to become one of the greatest rulers the land has ever known.

CD ISBN: 978-1-64192-474-0

MP3-CD ISBN: 978-1-64192-475-7
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Running Time: Approx. 6.3 Hrs.
Read by Ashley Griffin
Rated PG, 6 CDs

About the Author & Reader

Highlights include work at The Gershwin Theater, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, MTC and The Public Theater, as well as on THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, HOMELAND and DIABOLICAL, among others. She holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has trained at RADA, the National Theater and the Boston Conservatory. She has narrated audiobooks for Disney, Audible, John Marshall Media and others. As a writer, Ashley's work has been produced/developed at New World Stages, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, A.R.T., La Mama and more. Ashley received the WellLife Network Award and a county commendation for her Off-Broadway play TRIAL (directed by Lori Petty and heralded as “If this show were on Broadway it would win the Pulitzer”) and has written extensively for theater, film and T.V. receiving rave reviews from E! EW, MTV and others. Ashley's debut novel THE SPINDLE was released in 2022 with more books to come.