The Star of
Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
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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 and 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. Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining story is a timeless
classic for readers young and old.
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