Annika never has a birthday no one knows the date she was born. She celebrates her Found Day instead. For Annika was abandoned as a baby and found by a cook and a housemaid from Vienna. 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. One summer's evening a very old lady comes to stay with Annika's awful neighbours. The stories of her extraordinary life as a famous dancer are spellbinding. Especially the tale of the besotted Russian count who gave her the legendary emerald, the Star of Kazan. Then suddenly a glamorous stranger arrives at Annika's door. Her mother, after years of guilt and searching, has come to claim her. Annika is no servant but a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal she discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family . . . Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining story is a timeless classic for listeners young and old. Fans of JOURNEY TO THE RIVER SEAare in for an even more captivating treat in the eagerly-awaited THE STAR OF KAZAN.
ISBN: 9780330418027
ISBN-10: 0330418025
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Dimensions (cm): 19.700 x 13.000 x 1.000
Weight (kg): 0.582
Audience: Children
Age Range: 9 - 11 Years Old