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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War II—a story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation.
“Absolute aces...Quinn’s imagination and adventuresome spirit are a pleasure to behold.” —The New York Times
“Utterly heartbreaking and joyous.” —Jo Baker, author of Longbourn
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.
The price of "The Whalebone Theatre (Hardcover Book)" at Up Up & Away! Cincinnati (Blue Ash) is USD $29.00.
The publisher of "The Whalebone Theatre (Hardcover Book)" is Knopf Publishing.
The genres of "The Whalebone Theatre (Hardcover Book)" are Fiction - Family Life - Siblings, Fiction - Historical - 20th Century - World War II, and Fiction - Literary.
"The Whalebone Theatre (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).
The writer of "The Whalebone Theatre (Hardcover Book)" is Joanna Quinn.
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