![]() ![]() 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 and The Secret Countess, originally published as A Countess Below Stairs, Magic Flutes, originally published as The Reluctant Heiress, Madensky Square and A Company of Swans. In A Company of Swans, Harriet Morton grows weary of her life in 1912 Cambridge her father and Aunt Louisa are strict and oppressive, controlling Harriets life to such an extent that her only escape is ballet, the one activity they allow her. her elegantly written, witty and well-observed fables' Nigella Lawson, The Times Our book of the month for February 2021 is the romance novel A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson. Swept away by it all, she is unaware that her father and intended fiancé have begun to track her down. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in love with an aristocratic exile makes her new life complete. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. ![]() Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. ![]() A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance from award-winning author, Eva Ibbotson, with a new introduction by Joanna Nadin. ![]()
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