- Jewelry, Juvenile fiction, Abandoned children, Fiction
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
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Classical in form, grave, effortless and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Eva Ibbotson, Kevin Hawkes
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 388
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Pan MacMillan, Macmillan Audio Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780330418027
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Eva Ibbotson (born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner, 1925, Vienna, Austria) was a British novelist specializing in romance and children's fantasy. Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925. When Hitler came into power, Ibbotson's family moved to England. She attended Bedford College, graduating in 1945; Cambridge University from 1946-47; and the University of Durham, from which she graduated with a diploma in education in 1965. Ibbotson had intended to be a physiologist, but was put off by the amount of animal testing that she would have to do. Instead, she married and raised a family, returning to school to become a teacher in the 1960's. Ibbotson was widowed with three sons and a d
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