Madensky Square

By: Eva Ibbotson

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Paperback | 9 March 2017

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274 Pages

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Madensky Square is Eva Ibbotson's magical novel set in that most poignant of all times and places - Vienna before the First World War.

Susanna's dress shop stands in the delightful Madensky Square and is the very hub and heart of life. Susanna sympathizes with her neighbours, watches over Signi, the wretched, orphaned child prodigy, and with her infallible eye for dress, turns an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan.

Of all the colourful characters in Madensky Square, only her dear friend Alice has the slightest inkling that Susanna hides more than one secret. This hidden life, full of passion and anguish, gradually unfolds in a city of romance, music and gossip.

About the Author

Eva Ibbotson was born into a literary family in Vienna in 1925 and came to England as a small girl before the war. She took an honours degree in physiology at the University of London and went on to do postgraduate research at Cambridge, where she married a fellow scientist.

Ibbotson wrote more than twenty books for children and young adults, many of which garnered nominations for awards for children's literature in the UK, including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Prize. In her fiction for young adults, including The Secret Countess, Magic Flutes and A Company of Swans, Ibbotson was determined to prove that romantic novels can be funny, well-written and even a little erudite.

Eva passed away at her home in Newcastle on 20 October 2010.

Industry Reviews

[Ibbotson] provides not only charm, but intelligent prose and a character with finely tuned sensibilities Kirkus Sunshine and shadows, laughter and tears ... the grace and gaiety of a Viennese waltz Sunday Telegraph [Ibbotson] provides not only charm, but intelligent prose and a character with finely tuned sensibilities Kirkus

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