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Title Statement | The Whalebone Theatre [text (large print)] / Joanna Quinn. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Whalebone Theater |
Author | Quinn, Joanna, 1976- |
Publication | New York: Random House Large Print,2022. |
Edition | Large print edition. |
Extent of Item | xiii, 843 pages (large print) ; |
ISBN | 9780593663707 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06740446 |
General Notes | Originally published in standard print format: Fig Tree, 2022. "Read with Jenna"--Cover. |
Summary | "An utterly enchanting, immersive novel about an irrepressible young heroine who becomes an undercover agent during World War II -- a sparkling debut, by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, all whales belong to the King, but twelve-year-old Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household and their guests -- her sister, Flossie (known affectionately as "The Veg"); her brother Digby, the long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitkat, maidservant; Taras, a hot-tempered visiting artist -- build a theatre within the whale's skeleton. Cristabel is an orphan, mostly ignored by her feckless step-parents and brisk governesses. But within the Whalebone Theatre, she is fully at home and in charge, and her imagination comes to life. As Cristabel grows into a headstrong young woman, chafing against expectations, World War II rears its head. She and Digby become British secret agents working undercover in Nazi-Occupied France on separate missions -- a more dangerous kind of play-acting, it turns out, and one that threatens to tear the family apart. The Whalebone Theatre is a sweeping, transporting, completely irresistible novel, full of warmth and charm, humor and poignancy, passion and adventure-a story of love, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | World War, 1939-1945--Fiction--Secret service--Great Britain |
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction--Underground movements--France | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |
Spy fiction | |
Large type books | |
Novels |