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A BRIEF HISTORY OF MONTMARAY By: Michelle Cooper
Alfred a Knopf
October 2009
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Featuring: Sophie Fitzosborne
304 pages ISBN: 0375858644 EAN: 9780375858642 Hardcover
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βThereβs a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.β Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the island. But this is 1936, and the news that trickles in from the mainland reveals a world on the brink of war. The politics of Europe seem far away from their remote islandβuntil two German officers land a boat on Montmaray. And then suddenly politics become very personal indeed. A Brief History of Montmaray is a heart-stopping tale of loyalty, love, and loss, and of fighting to hold on to home when the world is exploding all around you.
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