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A Novel
Knopf
October 2022
On Sale: October 4, 2022
Featuring: Cristabel
576 pages
ISBN: 0593321707
EAN: 9780593321706
Kindle: B09LHBD39F
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the
shores of the English Channel. By law, it belongs to the
King, but twelve-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave has
other plans. She and the rest of the household—her
sister, Flossie; her brother, Digby, long-awaited heir to
Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitcat, kitchen maid; Taras,
visiting artist—build a theatre from the beast’s
skeletal rib cage. Within the Whalebone Theatre, Cristabel
can escape her feckless stepparents and brisk governesses,
and her imagination comes to life.
As Cristabel grows into a headstrong young woman, World
War II rears its head. She and Digby become British secret
agents on separate missions in Nazi-occupied France—a
more dangerous kind of playacting, it turns out, and one
that threatens to tear the family apart.
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