Eva Ibbotson wrote children's fantasy and historical novels in which eccentric families, ghosts, animals and displaced young people often meet in unexpected places. Journey to the River Sea sends orphan Maia from England to the Amazon, where life with hostile relatives is transformed by friendship, theatre and the landscape around Manaus. The Star of Kazan follows an abandoned girl growing up in Vienna and trying to understand her parentage, while The Secret Countess and A Company of Swans combine romance with early twentieth-century European settings. Her comic fantasies include Which Witch? and The Great Ghost Rescue, where supernatural creatures are treated as characters with domestic problems rather than sources of horror. Ibbotson's books are warm, adventurous and accessible, ranging across middle-grade historical fiction, children's fantasy and classic family reading. Read more Less
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