| Title | : | The Star of Kazan (Abridged) |
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| Author | : | Eva Ibbotson |
| Release | : | 2008-05-02 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Kids & Young Adults |
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| 1 | The Star of Kazan (Abridged) | Eva Ibbotson |
| Read by actress Ruth Jones, Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for listeners young and old. In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there, but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. And sure enough, one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching, Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter, who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family . . . |
