A Company of Swans (Ulverscroft Large Print)

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Hardcover, 560 pages

English language

Published March 5, 1987 by Ulverscroft Large Print.

ISBN:
978-0-7089-1598-1
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4 stars (3 reviews)

Harriet Morton is the daughter of a priggish and pompous professor, living in Cambridge. They live with his maiden sister who is sanctimonious and mean. There is no love in that house. The only concession they have given young Harriet, is dance. Here she is invited to join a ballet company based in Manaus in the Amazon area. Running away from home, she truly begins the adventure of living her life...

Romain Versey, formerly of Stavely in Cambridge has been away from home since the age of 19 due to a wicked stepbrother and after being betrayed in love. He went off to the Amazon to seek his fortune and is now extremely wealthy. As the president of the theatre where Harriet's company is based, Romain meets his one true love.

Will the two manage to overcome abductions and misunderstanding to be together?

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reviewed A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson

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5 stars

This may be one of the most awesomely insane things I've ever read: A beautifully threaded complex plot, pretty much all the tropes stirred in liberally and craftily bent to new purposes. Believable characters, from major to minor, fabulously crafted detail, and the best upending of upper class academic puritanism I've seen in ages.

Seriously: Ibbotson has no truck with shaming people for happiness, and it's utterly enthralling throughout.

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Subjects

  • Romance - General
  • Fiction - Romance
  • Large Print