Godmother, the Secret Cinderella Story / Carolyn Turgeon / 279 pages

Lillian works in a small bookstore in New York City.  She is elderly and lonely.  Living alone, she rarely ventures out except to go to work or to the diner across the street from her apartment.  Lil lives with the shame and disappointment of having failed someone in their hour of need.  Lil believes herself to be  Cinderella's fairy godmother and, instead of seeing her safely to the ball, she goes in her stead.  Her punishment is banishment from the fairy world to the world of humans and the bodily corruption inherent in it.  Lil has several mishaps with her wings that lend credence to her belief.  Lil serves as matchmaker to George, her boss, and Veronica, hoping that by helping them to fall in love at the ball, she can right the wrongs she done in the past.  Ms. Turgeon has a wonderful - although tragic - surprise ending to her story.