All Trolls Are Different: Trolls in this novel are beautiful humanoids with rough pale skin, equally gruff voices, and the ability to use magic.

Nobody objects: as the woman's brother remarks, the couple is very harmonious. Age-Gap Romance: Harald Soren and the much younger Sara fall in love.Adaptational Dye-Job: In the Russian translation, Rose’s eyes are brown rather than purple.Adaptation Expansion: With almost 500 pages, Pattou manages to seamlessly expand on the heroine's family, journey (now including the French and Inuit), and everything else.Determined to set things right, she sets off for the land 'east of the sun and west of the moon' to rescue her white bear once and for all. She agrees, traveling with him to a castle hidden in the mountains, and for a while everything goes all right, until Rose's curiosity turns out to be her undoing.

One stormy night, a white bear comes to their house, promising to somehow fix things if they will let him have Rose. Many years later, one of her older sisters gets sick, the first in a series of unfortunate events that leave the family worried about their future. However, nature wins out over nurture time and again, and Rose proves to be very much not like Elise.

Her mother is upset, due to her family's beliefs about north-born people being wild and generally ill-behaved, not to mention the prophecy about any north-born child she has dying buried in snow and ice, and so decides to pretend that Rose was a east-born child in the hopes of averting it. Ebba (actually Nyamh) Rose, was first conceived as a replacement due to her deceased east-born older sister, Elise, but in a twist of fate ends with her being a north-born child. East by Edith Pattou (published as North Child in the UK and Australia) is a retelling of ' East of the Sun and West of the Moon', first published in 2003.

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