A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Rediscover Eva Ibbotson, award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, in her sweeping historical romances, including The Morning Gift, A Song For Summer and The Secret Countess, originally published as A Countess Below Stairs, Magic Flutes, originally published as The Reluctant Heiress, Madensky Square and A Company of Swans. her elegantly written, witty and well-observed fables' Nigella Lawson, The Times Swept away by it all, she is unaware that her father and intended fiancé have begun to track her down. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in love with an aristocratic exile makes her new life complete. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. She became a writer while bringing up her. She planned to become a physiologist, but hated doing experiments on animals, and was rescued from some fierce rabbits by her husband-to-be. ![]() ![]() A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance from award-winning author, Eva Ibbotson, with a new introduction by Joanna Nadin. Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but when the Nazis came to power her family fed to England and she was sent to boarding school. ![]()
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