A Company of Swans

Name: A Company of Swans
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SKU: 9781035047093
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By Eva Ibbotson

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A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance, from bestselling award-winner Eva Ibbotson. 'Elegantly written, witty and well-observed' - Nigella Lawson, The Sunday Times In the grey, scholarly world of Cambridge in 1912, Harriet Morton has lived her... Read More

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Eva Ibbotson's classic historical romance about love, freedom and ballet sweeps us from grey scholarly Cambridge to the glittering brightness and freedom of Brazil.

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A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance, from bestselling award-winner Eva Ibbotson.

'Elegantly written, witty and well-observed' - Nigella Lawson, The Sunday Times

In the grey, scholarly world of Cambridge in 1912, Harriet Morton has lived her whole life under the strict rule of her widowed father and miserly aunt. When she is offered the opportunity to dance with the corps de ballet on a tour of the Amazon, she steals away on a boat bound for Manaus.

On arrival, Harriet meets the captivating British aristocrat, Rom Verney. Swept up in the exhilarating life of Brazil and the glorious worlds of romance and ballet, how can Harriet keep her new-found freedom when the life she left behind is catching up with her?

Escape into more classic romance with Eva Ibbotson's: The Morning Gift, The Secret Countess, A Song for Summer, Magic Flutes and Madensky Square.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035047093

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 July 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Picador

Contributors:

Introduction by Joanna Nadin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 274g

Pages: 400

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Arts & Culture Eva Ibbotson Fiction General Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Romance Romance

About the Author

Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and fled to England with her family when the Nazis came to power. She became a writer while bringing up her four children in Newcastle. Her bestselling novels have been published and loved by readers around the world. Her novels for adults, all rich historical romances, convey her deep love of the arts, the Austrian countryside, and the importance of belonging. In 2001, her children's novel Journey to the River Sea won the Nestle Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Eva passed away peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.

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