Description
| Product ID: | 9781529023039 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories |
| Authors: | Author: Eva Ibbotson |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Romance, Historical fiction, Short stories, Romance, Historical fiction, Short stories, Austria, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A winter edition of the award-winning Eva Ibbotson's historical short story collection, A Glove Shop in Vienna. <p><b>'Discovering Eva Ibbotson’s books is one of the nicest things that’s ever happened to me. The most beautiful, delicious, wry read' – Marian Keyes</b><br><b><br>Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of Northumberland to the snowy streets of pre-revolutionary St Petersberg. </b><br><br>A collection of eighteen romantic short stories from the award-winning and much-loved Eva Ibbotson, <i>A Glove Shop in Vienna </i>will show you the great passions and astute observations of everyday life. Join Great-Uncle Max, torn between his grand and secret love for Susie, the enchanting glove shop assistant, and the devotion of his opera-singing wife. Meet Miss Bennett, drama mistress at the fading Markham Street Primary School, whose search for a baby Jesus for the nativity play yields unexpected and miraculous results. And agonise with Kira, a dancer in Russia's Imperial Ballet school, thrown out onto the streets of St. Petersburg, and found by Edwin, a lonely dreamer. <br><br>A chocolate-box collection of deliciously romantic, atmospheric and witty stories to lose yourself in this Christmas.<br><br><b>'Eva Ibbotson is such a good writer that her characters break the bonds of the romantic novel' <i>Washington Post</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-15 |
