I, CORIANDER (SIGNED COPY)

GARDNER, Sally

ISBN 10: 1842552902 / ISBN 13: 9781842552902

Edité par Orion, London, 2005

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Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 9279

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Titre : I, CORIANDER (SIGNED COPY)

Éditeur : Orion, London

Date d'édition : 2005

Reliure : Hard Cover

Etat : New

Etat de la jaquette : New

Signé : Signed by Author

Edition : First Edition, First Impression.

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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 from which her mother came, and where 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 realized 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.
Coriander is a heroine to love. Her story will establish Sally Gardner as a children's writer of boundless imagination and originality.