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Sweeping across countries, class, and music, Eva Ibbotson's classic historical romance, Magic Flutes, is a richly imagined tale of intrigue and identity. In the spring of 1922, young Austrian Princess Theresa-Maria - known to her ancient aunts as 'Putzerl' - abandons her crumbling castle and her...
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Magic Flutes
A beautiful, classic story of romance, intrigue and opera, by the award-winning Eva Ibbotson.
A beautiful, classic story of romance, intrigue and opera, by the award-winning Eva Ibbotson, reissued to mark what would've been Eva's 100th birthday. Reissued with a new cover
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Sweeping across countries, class, and music, Eva Ibbotson's classic historical romance, Magic Flutes, is a richly imagined tale of intrigue and identity.
In the spring of 1922, young Austrian Princess Theresa-Maria - known to her ancient aunts as 'Putzerl' - abandons her crumbling castle and her royal duties. Disguising herself simply as Tessa, she enrols as under wardrobe mistress of the International Opera Company and soon loses herself in the intoxicating world of the Viennese opera.
But when Guy Farne, an Englishman looking to impress his new fiancée, arrives in Austria and employs the Company to perform at his newly purchased Austrian estate, he finds himself fascinated by the under wardrobe mistress, and Tessa finds it increasingly difficult to keep her two lives separate...
'I have binged on Eva Ibbotson... her elegantly written, witty and well-observed fables' - Nigella Lawson, The Times
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, The Secret Countess (originally published as A Countess Below Stairs), Madensky Square and A Company of Swans. Magic Flutes was originally published as The Reluctant Heiress.
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ISBN: 9781035047130
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Contributors:
- Introduction by Harriet Evans
Audience: Teenage
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 258g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and moved to England with her father when the Nazis came into power. Ibbotson wrote more than twenty books for children and young adults, many of which garnered nominations for major awards for children's literature in the UK, including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Prize. Eva's critically acclaimed Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Gold Medal in 2001. Set in the Amazon, it was written in honour of her deceased husband Alan, a former naturalist. Imaginative and humorous, Eva's books often convey her love of nature, in particular the Austrian countryside, which is evident in works such as The Star Of Kazan and A Song For Summer. Eva passed away at her home in Newcastle on October 20th 2010. Her final book, One Dog and His Boy, was published in May 2011.
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