A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories

Ibbotson, Eva

£8.99

A winter edition of the award-winning Eva Ibbotson’s historical short story collection, A Glove Shop in Vienna.

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Publish Date: 15/10/2020

Description

‘Discovering Eva Ibbotson’s books is one of the nicest things that’s ever happened to me. The most beautiful, delicious, wry read’ – Marian Keyes

Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of Northumberland to the snowy streets of pre-revolutionary St Petersberg.

A collection of eighteen romantic short stories from the award-winning and much-loved Eva Ibbotson, A Glove Shop in Vienna will show you the great passions and astute observations of everyday life. Join Great-Uncle Max, torn between his grand and secret love for Susie, the enchanting glove shop assistant, and the devotion of his opera-singing wife. Meet Miss Bennett, drama mistress at the fading Markham Street Primary School, whose search for a baby Jesus for the nativity play yields unexpected and miraculous results. And agonise with Kira, a dancer in Russia’s Imperial Ballet school, thrown out onto the streets of St. Petersburg, and found by Edwin, a lonely dreamer.

A chocolate-box collection of deliciously romantic, atmospheric and witty stories to lose yourself in this Christmas.

‘Eva Ibbotson is such a good writer that her characters break the bonds of the romantic novel’ Washington Post

Additional information

Weight 176 g
Dimensions 196 × 129 × 21 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

400

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

823.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K