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Susan Carroll | Conversations in Character with Prunella Marie Upton aka Ella
Author Guest / January 11, 2024

Book Title: DISENCHANTED Character Name: Prunella Marie Upton (Except don’t ever call me that!  I loathe my first name.  I prefer to be simply Ella.   How would you describe your family or your childhood?  My early childhood was wonderful.  I lived with my mother and father in Castleton, the largest city in our kingdom of Arcady. My mama had a great imagination and invented games for me such as my battles with the ogre, Dirty Burt (my lovely mother in disguise.)  My father was more serious, but I loved sitting on his lap while he read from my favorite book, The Life and Exploits of Queen Anthea, the Magnificently Wise.  And then there was my best friend, Malcolm Hawkridge, the boy next door.  Mal and I enjoyed many adventures, playing at being river pirates or bandits, besieging my dollhouse with Mal’s toy soldiers and cannons.   Everything changed when my mother died.  My grieving father became a recluse, shutting himself away in the library.  But he provided for my upbringing by marrying again, Imelda Wendover, a woman with two small daughters of her own.  But I would not have you think this is a tale about a girl who acquired…