Description: The Sunday Times bestseller- a brilliant, beguiling story of an irrepressible girl from a gloriously dysfunctional home who fights to carve out her own story. Cristabel Seagrave has always wanted her life to be a story, but there are no girls in the books in her dusty family library. For an unwanted orphan who grows into an unmarriageable young woman, there is no place at all for her in a traditional English manor. But from the day that a whale washes up on the beach at the Chilcombe estate in Dorset, and twelve-year-old Cristabel plants her flag and claims it as her own, she is determined to do things differently. With her step-parents blithely distracted by their endless party guests, Cristabel and her siblings, Flossie and Digby, scratch together an education from the plays they read in their freezing attic, drunken conversations eavesdropped through oak-panelled doors, and the esoteric lessons of Maudie their maid. But as the children grow to adulthood and war approaches, jolting their lives on to very different tracks, it becomes clear that the roles they are expected to play are no longer those they want. As they find themselves drawn into the conflict, they must each find a way to write their own story...
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EAN: 9780241994146
UPC: 9780241994146
ISBN: 9780241994146
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Format: Paperback, 560 pages
Author: Quinn, Joanna
Book Title: The Whalebone Theatre: The instant Sunday Times be
Item Height: 4 cm
Item Length: 19.8 cm
Item Weight: 0.34 kg
Item Width: 13.2 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd