![]() ![]() ![]() Fans of ‘Journey To The River Sea’ are in for an even more captivating treat in the eagerly-awaited ‘ The Star of Kazan‘. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal she discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family…Įva Ibbotson’s hugely entertaining story is a timeless classic for listeners young and old. Annika is no servant but a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. Her mother, after years of guilt and searching, has come to claim her. Then suddenly a glamorous stranger arrives at Annika’s door. Especially the tale of the besotted Russian count who gave her the legendary emerald, The Star of Kazan. About the Author Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and moved to England with her father. The stories of her extraordinary life as a famous dancer are spellbinding. Magic Flutes was originally published as The Reluctant Heiress. ![]() One summer’s evening a very old lady comes to stay with Annika’s awful neighbours. Her upbringing in the servants’ quarters of the house of three eccentric professors means that at an early age she can bake and ice a three-tier cake, and polish parquet floors to perfection. For Annika was abandoned as a baby and found by a cook and a housemaid from Vienna. Annika never has a birthday – no one knows the date she was born. ![]()
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