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Madensky Square (Pan Heritage Classics)

Madensky Square (Pan Heritage Classics)

by EvaIbbotson (Author)

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    Paperback 2017

    $14.42
Synopsis

Susanna Weber's dress shop stands in the picturesque Madensky Square, a quiet little world of its own, nestled in the heart of glittering pre-war Vienna.

As the winter of 1910 unfurls into spring, Susanna starts a journal about life in the Square, about the buildings and their colourful inhabitants. There's Frau Schumacher, with six daughters and a baby on the way, Professor Starsky and his menagerie of sickly reptiles, an aging bookseller, a teenaged Anarchist, and little Sigi - an orphaned child prodigy forced to play the piano all day, every day.

And then there's her dear friend Alice, the only person who has noticed the heartbreak that hides beneath Susanna's brisk kindness and brilliant talent . . .

A magical novel about the passions and tragedies behind daily life, Madensky Square remains as enchanting today as it was on first publication.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 274
 Edition: On Demand
 Publisher: Pan
Published: 09 Mar 2017
ISBN 10: 1509821902
ISBN 13: 9781509821907
Book Overview: By the award-winning author of The Secret Countess.

Media Reviews
[Ibbotson] provides not only charm, but intelligent prose and a character with finely tuned sensibilities Kirkus Sunshine and shadows, laughter and tears ... the grace and gaiety of a Viennese waltz Sunday Telegraph [Ibbotson] provides not only charm, but intelligent prose and a character with finely tuned sensibilities Kirkus
Author Bio
Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and moved to England with her father when the Nazis came into power. Ibbotson wrote more than twenty books for children and young adults, many of which garnered nominations for major awards for children's literature in the UK, including the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Prize. Eva's critically acclaimed Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Gold Medal in 2001. Set in the Amazon, it was written in honour of her deceased husband Alan, a former naturalist. Imaginative and humorous, Eva's books often convey her love of nature, in particular the Austrian countryside, which is evident in works such as The Star Of Kazan and A Song For Summer. Eva passed away at her home in Newcastle on October 20th 2010. Her final book, One Dog and His Boy, was published in May 2011.