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Title: I, CORIANDER
By: Sally Gardner, Juliet Stevenson
Format: Audio cassette

List price: £13.00


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ISBN 10: 0752872109
ISBN 13: 9780752872100
Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO
Pub. date: 4 August, 2005
Description: A glorious novel set in seventeenth-century London, and in the fairy world. Lightly abridged. 'Juliet Stevenson is a seductive reader' Daily Telegraph
Synopsis: 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, whose joys and sorrows we follow through huge adventures. Her story is utterly captivating and will establish Sally Gardner as a major children's writer, of boundless imagination and originality.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Prizes: Winner of Nestle Children's Book Prize: Age 9-11 2005 Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Short-listed for British Book Awards: Children's Book of the Year 2006
Returns: Non-returnable
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