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 2018304 pages
9781509878765Imprint: 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
