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What a delight! (Fiction Focus)
Beautifully written, completely absorbing ... Magical (The Book Magazine)
Brilliant descriptions, powerfully evoking the sounds and smells of London in the period and superbly drawn characters combine with a delicately constructed plot to make this book a real pleasure (Good Book Guide)
A beautifully written tale of suspense and intrigue (The Historical Novels Review)
Spellbinding (Haverhill Echo)
A very unusual, poetic tale (The Northern Echo)
An extraordinarily beautiful and gripping tale (The Times)
Enchanting (The Children's Bookseller)
Richly written, highly visual and full of accurate historical detail (Children's Education)
Gripping ... as vivd as Pepys' diary ... strikingly original ... a very special book indeed (School Librarian)
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Beautifully written, completely absorbing ... Magical (The Book Magazine)
Brilliant descriptions, powerfully evoking the sounds and smells of London in the period and superbly drawn characters combine with a delicately constructed plot to make this book a real pleasure (Good Book Guide)
A beautifully written tale of suspense and intrigue (The Historical Novels Review)
Spellbinding (Haverhill Echo)
A very unusual, poetic tale (The Northern Echo)
An extraordinarily beautiful and gripping tale (The Times)
Enchanting (The Children's Bookseller)
Richly written, highly visual and full of accurate historical detail (Children's Education)
Gripping ... as vivd as Pepys' diary ... strikingly original ... a very special book indeed (School Librarian)
A glorious novel set in seventeenth-century London, and in the fairy world.
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- PublisherOrion Children's Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1842552902
- ISBN 13 9781842552902
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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