I, Coriander

By: Sally Gardner

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Synopsis: A glorious novel set in seventeenth-century London, and in the fairy world. Abridged edition, read by Juliet StevensonThe story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher. She is shut away in a chest and left to die, but emerges into the fairy world from which her mother came, and where time has no meaning. When she returns, charged with a task that will transform her life, she is seventeen. This is a book filled with enchantments -- a pair of silver shoes, a fairy shadow, a prince transformed into a fox - that contrast with the heartbreaking loss and cruelty of Coriander's life in the real world. With its brilliantly realized setting of old London Bridge, and underpinned by the conflict between Royalists and Puritans, it is a terrific page turner, involving kidnapping, murder and romance, and an abundance of vivid characters.Coriander is a heroine to love. Her story will establish Sally Gardner as a children's writer of boundless imagination and originality.Read by Juliet Stevenson(P)2004 Orion Publishing Group.Ltd

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780752884790
Related ISBNs:: 9781444015676
Publisher:: Hachette Children's Group
Date of Addition:: 03/03/22
Copyrighted By:: Sally Gardner
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Narrated By:: Juliet Stevenson
Categories:: History, Children's Books, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Reading Age:: 9–11
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.