The Star of Kazan - Softcover

Eva Ibbotson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447265726 ISBN 13: 9781447265726

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, 2014

Synopsis

In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there, but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. And sure enough, one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching, Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter, who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family . . .

Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old.

About this title

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

Book Description:

An enthralling adventure set in turn-of-the-century Vienna. From the author of the bestselling Journey to the River Sea.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1447265726
• ISBN 13: 9781447265726
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400