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I, Coriander
Historical, Our FavouritesA stunning story set in seventeenth-century London and the fairy world, from a CARNEGIE MEDAL and COSTA-prizewinning author. The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher.
She is shut away in a chest and left to die, but emerges into the fairy world from which her mother came, and where time has no meaning. When she returns, charged with a task that will transform her life, she is seventeen. This is a book filled with enchantments — a pair of silver shoes, a fairy shadow, a prince transformed into a fox – that contrast with the heartbreaking loss and cruelty of Coriander’s life in the real world.
With its brilliantly realised setting of old London Bridge, and underpinned by the conflict between Royalists and Puritans, it is a terrific page-turner, involving kidnapping, murder and romance, and an abundance of vivid characters.
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Joanne –
I thought this was a great read, with a suspenseful plot. I loved the lyrical descriptions, (especially of textiles -the wicked queen’s dress with eyes that blink!) The book is a mixture of historical fiction and magical realism/fantasy which gives an insight into everyday life at the time, with details about everything from chamber pot emptying, working life and conditions to political and social tensions. A wide cast of well-drawn characters -royalists, puritans, evil villains, drives the plot to a satisfying conclusion.