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I, Coriander

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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.

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Product Details
1842552902 / 9781842552902
Hardback
823.914
04/08/2005
United Kingdom
English
299 p.
21 cm
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Quiz No: 208253, Points 10.00, Book Level 5.50,
Middle Years - Key Stage 2 Learn More
Sally Gardner's first book for older readers. A dramatic departure for an author whose books have sold nearly half a million copies already. Sally's existing fans will love it, but this will reach a far bigger readership. Auctioned in the USA for half a million dollars. Rights sold in 8 languages. Bound proofs available. Major publicity and marketing.
Sally Gardner's first book for older readers. A dramatic departure for an author whose books have sold nearly half a million copies already. Sally's existing fans will love it, but this will reach a far bigger readership. Auctioned in the USA for half a million dollars. Rights sold in 8 languages. Bound proofs available. Major publicity and marketing. YFH Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage), YFT Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage)