Bitter Greens Author:Kate Forsyth The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time. . . . French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. At the convent, she is comforted by an old nun, Soeur Seraphina, who tells her the tale of a ... more »young girl who, a hundred years earlier, is sold by her parents for a handful of bitter greens.« less