When Hitler came into power, her family moved to England. She was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925. young and old.Įva Ibbotson (born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner) was a British novelist specializing in romance and children's fantasy. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal she discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family. Annika is no servant but a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. Her mother, after years of guilt and searching, has come to claim her. Then suddenly a glamorous stranger arrives at Annika's door. Especially the tale of the besotted Russian count who gave her the legendary emerald, the Star of Kazan. The stories of her extraordinary life as a famous dancer are spellbinding. One summer's evening a very old lady comes to stay with Annika's awful neighbours. Her upbringing in the servants' quarters of the house of three eccentric professors means that at an early age she can bake and ice a three-tier cake, and polish parquet floors to perfection. For Annika was abandoned as a baby and found by a cook and a housemaid from Vienna. Annika never has a birthday - no one knows the date she was born. CD version of this enthralling and enchanting adventure set in turn-of-the-century Vienna from the author of the bestselling JOURNEY TO THE RIVER SEA.
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