About the book.

An original fairy story entirely invented by the author that tells the tail of a young Prince and his companion coming back to their homeland after being mysteriously whisked away and ship wrecked by an evil wizard.

They are almost home and getting very close to the dead line when the Prince must take over ruling the kingdom from his father or lose everything, when they happen on an old man who is sitting on a rock and weeping. This ancient tells them how his only daughter, the beautiful Lucinda has been kidnapped and imprisoned by her evil uncle and how her father has little or no magic left to rescue her. All he has are three magic handkerchiefs.

These he gives to the prince and begs him to rescue his daughter.

The Prince agrees, exchanging clothes with his companion and ordering the companion to return to the kingdom in his place.

The Prince sets off to find Lucinda. On the way he is confronted by The Hag whose weapon is speech and the Gundesvorn a twin headed crawling grub whose weapon is the eyes in it's right hand head.

Overcoming these terrors with the aid of two of the handkerchiefs, the Prince comes at last to the tower where Lucinda is imprisoned but there is no way up to her until the prince realises that he can use the last handkerchief to make a rope for her to climb down.

All ends as it should with the Prince returning to his own land with his bride and his companion handing over the reins of power to him.

Eight principals and chorus of towns folk etc.