The English Girl
$35.86
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2014
Summary
When seventeen-year-old Stella Whittaker is offered the chance to study at the Academy of Music in Vienna it’s a dream-come-true, made possible by old family friends, Rainer and Marthe Kraus, who offer her a place to live.
Seduced by the elegant beauty of the city, Stella explores the magnificent palaces, gardens and fashionable coffee houses, and after a chance meeting in an art gallery, falls in love with Harri Reznik, a young Jewish doctor.
But as the threat of war casts a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751551778 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0751551775 |
| Author: | Margaret Leroy |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 296g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 27mm |
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Stunning and evocative … utterly beguiling
A wonderful, wonderful book! Margaret Leroy does an amazing job of showing us the Nazi takeover of Austria through the eyes of an engaging, bright and brave seventeen-year-old English girl. I lost three nights of sleep, unable to put this superbly written book aside and turn out the light - Diane Chamberlain
Margaret Leroy captures, brilliantly, a spirit of place and time in her recreation of the beauty, deception and coming darkness of pre-war Vienna, and what it means to be young, in love, and very far from home. I loved it. - Elizabeth SpellerStunning and evocative … utterly beguiling - Rosamund LuptonMargaret Leroy writes with candour and intelligence, capturing the menace of suddenly finding that the world may not be at all as you’ve thought it - Helen DunmoreGripping and heart-warming; you won’t want to put it down - Irish TatlerAbout The Author
Margaret Leroy
Margaret Leroy studied music at Oxford, and has worked as a music therapist and social worker. She has written six previous novels, including her first novel, Trust, televised by Granada; The Perfect Mother was also a NYT Notable Book of the Year, The Drowning Girl was chosen for the Oprah Summer Reading List, and The Soldier’s Wife was a GoodReads Historical Fiction finalist. Her books have been published in twelve languages. She is married with two children, and lives in London.
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