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| Title | : | A Company of Swans |
| Author | : | Eva Ibbotson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 374 pages |
| Published | : | September 6th 2007 by Speak (first published July 1st 1985) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Young Adult. Fiction. Historical Romance. Teen |
Eva Ibbotson
Paperback | Pages: 374 pages Rating: 3.98 | 9249 Users | 714 Reviews
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For nineteen-year-old Harriet Morton, life in 1912 Cambridge is as dry and dull as a biscuit. Her stuffy father and her opressive aunt Louisa allow her only one outlet: ballet. When a Russian ballet master comes to class searching for dancers to fill the corps of his ballet company before their South American tour, Harriet's world changes. Defying her father's wishes and narrowly escaping the clutches of the man who wishes to marry her, Harriet sneaks off to join the ballet on their journey to the Amazon. There, in the wild, lush jungle, they perform Swan Lake in grand opera houses for the wealthy and culture-deprived rubber barons, and Harriet meets Rom Verney, the handsome and mysterious British exile who owns the most ornate opera house. Utterly enchanted by both the exotic surroundings and by Rom's affections, Harriet is swept away by her new life, completely unaware that her father and would-be fiancé have begun to track her down...
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| Original Title: | A Company of Swans |
| ISBN: | 0142409405 (ISBN13: 9780142409404) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 9249 Users | 714 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books A Company of Swans
*4.5 stars*This is my second book by this author and I just loved it. Her books have been recently marketed as YA but like the last one, this is really a clean historical romance with a really great heroine (nice, loving, smart, hard worker) who is NOT a beauty but still shines because of her personality. Add to that the great setting (a ballet company touring Brazil in the 1910s), an interesting hero and an amazing cast of secondary characters and you get another gem by Ibbotson.The balletImprinting, it's called. The perfect book; the developing reader. The conviction thereafter that all other books are striving to be this one. Why is The Company of Swans *so* good? - and, believe me, even years later, it really is still that good. Partly it's because the plot is pure Cinderella (my favourite trope): Harriet Morton is cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd by the conventions of Edwardian Cambridge. Her widowed father and aunt live unimaginative lives of quiet monotony, and actively
Here's a checklist for you:1. do you like ballet?2. do you enjoy romantic semi-tragedies?3. would you travel to the Amazon to escape from over-bearing and protecting family members?4. would you defy everything you've been brought up to believe for something you think is right?If you say yes to at least to of these, then this book is definetly one you will read again and again!
At eighteen years of age, Harriet Jane Morton lived in the attic of her father's depressive house. Her sweet mother died when she was a little girl along with what remaining love was in her life. Her stifling spinster Aunt Louisa assisted her brother in running the house. I won't call it a home because it was just a building. With people living in it. The always-serious Professor Morton expected his daughter to marry the man he had chosen. A zoologist, Edward Finch-Dutton gave himself the goal
I don't quite know what to do with this little book. It's part believable YA historical novel, and part Harlequinesque romance. I am accustomed romantic historical fiction which reads like, well, historical romance novels. Evidently writers find that the whole mysterious, moody hero meets naive and vulernable heroine in an over-sentimentalized plot sells quite well in the mass market. Usually the heroine will have an appropriately pitiful and tragic past, from which only the hero can redeem her,
Trigger warnings: incredibly controlling and abusive parent and aunt, imprisonment.So the internet seems to indicate that this book was originally published as an adult book and then when Eva Ibbotson's YA writing took off, it got republished as a YA book. I'm really very much hoping that's the case because it's the story of an eighteen year old girl who runs away to Brazil to be a ballet dancer and falls in love with a man who's "not quite thirty". And, like, PLEASE DON'T PROMOTE THOSE KINDS OF
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