Описание
The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher. She is shut away in a chest and left to die, but emerges into the fairy world fr om which her mother came, and wh ere time has no meaning. When she returns, charged with a task that will transform her life, she is seventeen.
This is a book filled with enchantments -- a pair of silver shoes, a fairy shadow, a prince transformed into a fox - that contrast with the heartbreaking loss and cruelty of Coriander's life in the real world. With its brilliantly realised setting of old London Bridge, and underpinned by the conflict between Royalists and Puritans, it is a terrific page-turner, involving kidnapping, murder and romance, and an abundance of vivid characters.
Характеристики
Основные
- Дата выпуска 2015
- Количество страниц 320
- Артикул 166735
Дополнительные
- Размер (мм) 199x129x21
- Цвет Серый
- Тип бумаги Офсетная бумага
- Вес (г) 272
- Тип переплёта обл - мягкий переплет (крепление скрепкой или клеем)
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