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Author:

Quinn, Joanna, 1976- author.

Title:

The Whalebone Theatre / Joanna Quinn.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

553 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Great Britain--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France--Fiction.
Spy fiction.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book"

Summary:

"An utterly enchanting, immersive novel about an irrepressible young heroine who becomes an undercover agent during World War II-a sparkling debut, by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, all whales belong to the King, but twelve-year-old Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household and their guests-her sister, Flossie (known affectionately as "The Veg"); her brother Digby, the long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitkat, maidservant; Taras, a hot-tempered visiting artist-build a theatre within the whale's skeleton. Cristabel is an orphan, mostly ignored by her feckless step-parents and brisk governesses. But within the Whalebone Theatre, she is fully at home and in charge, and her imagination comes to life. As Cristabel grows into a headstrong young woman, chafing against expectations, World War II rears its head. She and Digby become British secret agents working undercover in Nazi-Occupied France on separate missions-a more dangerous kind of play-acting, it turns out, and one that threatens to tear the family apart. The Whalebone Theatre is a sweeping, transporting, completely irresistible novel, full of warmth and charm, humor and poignancy, passion and adventure-a story of love, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0593321707
9780593321706 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1285554358

LCCN:

2022004044

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