Description
Book SynopsisAlone and poverty-stricken, sixteen-year-old Zéphyrine is quickly lured in by the ideals of the city's radical new government, and she finds herself swept away by its promises of freedom, hope, equality and rights for women. But she is about to be seduced for a second time, following a fateful encounter with a young violinist.
Trade Review...a thrilling, daring love story... Known for bringing neglected historical periods to life for her teenage audience, Syson's passionate account of the lives of four youths during those dramatic seventy-two days in 1871 is a riveting yarn. * BookSlut *
It's impressively thorough and informed by her own fair-minded feminism... The writing is powerful, the events terrifying. * The Bookbag *
This is an excellent history lesson, mixed with romance. * Bookwitch *
Romantic, fascinating and terrifying * Teach Secondary *
Thoroughly researched and beautifully written * The Guardian (Praise for A WORLD BETWEEN US) *
Syson brings history alive through careful detail * The Observer (Praise for A WORLD BETWEEN US) *
An impressive cross-over at many levels -- Peter Andrews * School Library Association *
This is historical fiction at its best: opening a window on the past and showing a moment that has echoes and resonances with our own troubled times * Awfully Big Reviews *
