The Undrowned Child
$32.26
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
24 March 2010
Summary
It’s the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora.
Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444000047 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444000047 |
| Author: | Michelle Lovric |
| Publisher: | Hachette Children's Group |
| Imprint: | Orion Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 24 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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I would recommend this book to anyone that would like to have fun while finding out true stories about this world famous city… This brilliant adventure is full of fantasy and drama and there is always something going on - SCOTTISHBOOKTRUST.COM - Rachel (young reviewer)
About The Author
Michelle Lovric
Michelle Lovric divides her time between a flat on the Thames, and Venice. She has published three novels for adults, of which ‘The Remedy’ was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She combines her fiction work with editing, designing and producing literary anthologies including her own translations of Latin and Italian poetry. Her book ‘Love Letters’ was a New York Times best-seller. She maintains large databases of text and visual material on memoirs, love poems and letters, female and male wit, slang/cursing/archaic words and esoteric medical matters.
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