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Book SynopsisEva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but when the Nazis came to power her family fled to England and she was sent to boarding school. She became a writer while bringing up her four children, and her bestselling novels have been published around the world.
Journey to the River Sea won the Nestlé Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Some of her other young fiction titles include
The Secret of Platform 13, Dial a Ghost and
The Great Ghost Rescue. Eva died peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.
Trade ReviewThe perfect alternative for Harry Potter fans * Independent on Sunday *
This kind of fun will never fail to delight. -- Philip Pullman
Wildly original and wholly satisfying. -- Amanda Craig * The Guardian *
