The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson
Award-winner Eva Ibbotson's historical romance takes us from St Petersburg to rural England, stretching across families and class divides. A witty, elegant Cinderella story set in 1919.Sheer bliss from start to finish * Daily Mail *
So full of goodness, generosity and romance! I loved The Secret Countess -- Jessie Burton * Good Housekeeping *
Radiant and comforting * The TLS *
My comfort reads
Eva Ibbotson’s The Morning Gift or The Secret CountessSuch an interesting writer: an Austrian refugee who came to the UK in the 1930s. Both novels are about displaced people in a time of war but written with such a lightness of touch and extraordinary charm that they always change my mood to hopeful. Absolute balm.
Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and fled to England with her family when the Nazis came to power. She became a writer while bringing up her four children in Newcastle. Her bestselling novels have been published and loved by readers around the world.
Her novels for adults, all rich historical romances, convey her deep love of the arts, the Austrian countryside, and the importance of belonging.
In 2001, her children's novel Journey to the River Sea won the Nestle Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
Eva passed away peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781035047062 |
| ISBN 10 | 1035047063 |
| Title | The Secret Countess |
| Author | Eva Ibbotson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2025-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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