The Secret Countess

Name: The Secret Countess
Brand: Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd
SKU: 9781035047062
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By Eva Ibbotson

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Unapologetically romantic, extremely funny, wry, dry, witty - and hugely uplifting - Marian Keyes Full of goodness, generosity and romance! - Jessie Burton Radiant and comforting - The TLS Sheer bliss from start to finish - Daily Mail Award-winner Eva Ibbotson's The Secret Countess is a... Read More

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Award-winner Eva Ibbotson's romantic, witty, elegant Cinderella story, takes us from St Petersburg in 1919 to rural England, stretching across families and class divides. Reissued with a new cover.

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Unapologetically romantic, extremely funny, wry, dry, witty - and hugely uplifting - Marian Keyes

Full of goodness, generosity and romance! - Jessie Burton

Radiant and comforting - The TLS

Sheer bliss from start to finish - Daily Mail

Award-winner Eva Ibbotson's The Secret Countess is a classic historical romance that stretches across countries, families and class divides.

After revolution tears her country apart, young Russian countess Anna Grazinsky is forced to flee Saint Petersburg for rural England, where her now penniless family has no choice but to rely on the kindness of their only friend, Anna's old governess. Determined to help her family in any way possible, Anna arms herself with an out-of-date book on housekeeping and takes work as a servant at a crumbling mansion in the English countryside.

The year 1919 sees Rupert, the handsome young Earl of Westerholme, return from war and become instantly mesmerized by Anna. As powerful attraction clashes with tradition, Anna finds concealing her true identity increasingly impossible.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035047062

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Picador

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 199.0mm

Weight: 244g

Pages: 352

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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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