![]() ![]() I have skimmed through this book but haven't read it fully.It looks such an easy read.Even though it is aimed at younger people and young adults I think it may be a great summer read for me too.In fact I do plan to read it over the summer. You never know what is going to happen.Every page you turn there is a new twist.It is so interesting to know more about history.She could relate to Opal and how she seemed shy but would stand up for herself when she had to, just like her.It is romantic and the ending is so sad but so lovely too. Without any spoilers.Here are Becky's thoughts. But the First World War is about to begin, and will change Opal’s life for ever.īecky has read it from cover to cover.If she doesn't like a book after the first few pages she will put it down and not pick it up again so for her to read it all means she really enjoyed it. And when Opal meets Morgan – Mrs Roberts’ handsome son, and the heir to Fairy Glen – she believes she has found her soulmate. But Opal idolises Mrs Roberts, the factory’s beautiful, dignified owner, who introduces Opal to the legendary Mrs Pankhurst and her fellow Suffragettes. Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think her snobby and stuck-up. ![]() ![]() Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family. ![]() Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The ballet has been performed in many different places since then. Interest grew when George Balanchine's The Nutcracker was televised in the late 1950s. In 1940, Walt Disney used some of the Nutcracker music in his animated movie Fantasia, which led to an interest in the ballet. Petersburg, Russia, on 18 December 1892 to a modest success and rarely seen the next years. The Nutcracker was first performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. ![]() Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov designed the dances. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the music. Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipa adapted Hoffmann's story for the ballet. It tells the story of a little girl who goes to the Land of Sweets on Christmas Eve. Hoffmann's 1816 fairy tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. ![]() The Nutcracker is a classical ballet in two acts. Hoffmann's " The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"Īct 1: Christmas Eve in 19th century Germany ![]() ![]() ![]() The Reluctant Heiress, Madensky Square and A Company of Swans. Magic Flutes was originally published as The Reluctant Heiress. An Eva Ibbotson Collection Viking Books for Young Readers. ![]() ![]() 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. Disguising herself simply as Tessa, she enrolls as under wardrobe mistress of the International Opera Company and soon loses herself in the intoxicating world of the Viennese opera.īut when Guy Farne, an Englishman looking to impress his new fiance, 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. 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. Sweeping across countries, class and music, Eva Ibboton's classic historical romance, Magic Flutes, is a richly imagined tale of intrigue and identity, with a new introduction. ![]() |