The Star of Kazan

Ibbotson, Eva

ISBN 10: 1405051523 ISBN 13: 9781405051521

Publisher: Macmillan Audio Books, 2008

Synopsis

CD version of this charming adventure set in turn-of-the-century Vienna from the author of the bestselling JOURNEY TO THE RIVER SEA.

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Review

...Involve[s] difficulties surmounted, and do[es] not patronize but won't give a child nightmares. -- The Times, 10 November 2004

A magnificent piece of storytelling, which positively luxuriates in the extraordinary twists and turns of the plot. -- Books for Keeps, November 2004

Synopsis

Annika never has a birthday - no one knows the date she was born. She celebrates her Found Day instead. For Annika was abandoned as a baby and found by a cook and a housemaid from Vienna. Her upbringing in the servants' quarters of the house of three eccentric professors means that at an early age she can bake and ice a three-tier cake, and polish parquet floors to perfection. One summer's evening a very old lady comes to stay with Annika's awful neighbours. The stories of her extraordinary life as a famous dancer are spellbinding. Especially the tale of the besotted Russian count who gave her the legendary emerald, the Star of Kazan. Then suddenly a glamorous stranger arrives at Annika's door. Her mother, after years of guilt and searching, has come to claim her. Annika is no servant but a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal she discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family ...Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining story is a timeless classic for listeners young and old ...

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Audio Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1405051523
• ISBN 13: 9781405051521
• Binding: Audio CD