Synopsis
'Eccentric and poignant with inevitable echoes of Austen as she goes for heightened emotion and rarefied beauty . . . suspend disbelief and you’ll fly through this world of sense and sensibility' Time Out
Aspiring young artist sixteen-year-old Pandora Crumbe, lonely and bored in her rural village, has been unwillingly taken for lunch with her eccentric neighbours The Morningquest family ....
Details
17 May 2018
304 pages
9781509878765
Imprint: Bello
Reviews
Both buoyantly messy and thoroughly delightful – is centered on a large, wildly talented, intellectually playful family of internationally known musicians . . . Despite the helter-skelter plot directions: the pace, place, and talk are enchantingKirkus reviews
Joan Aiken has always had a penchant for the exotic . . . eccentric and poignant with inevitable echoes of Austen as she goes for heightened emotion and rarefied beauty . . . suspend disbelief and you’ll fly through this world of sense and sensibilityTime Out