{"product_id":"9781035047000","title":"The Star of Kazan","description":"\u003cb\u003eA timeless and enthralling adventure set in turn-of-the-century Vienna from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and award-winning author Eva Ibbotson.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there, but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd sure enough, one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching, Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter, who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnjoyable for readers 9 to 99, Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining \u003ci\u003eThe Star of Kazan\u003c\/i\u003e is an enduring classic.","brand":"Eva Ibbotson","offers":[{"title":"Pan Macmillan |  Paperback \/ softback | B-format paperback |  2024-11-05","offer_id":45664447430911,"sku":"9781035047000","price":17.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_79c04310-df7f-40e8-af4b-5ca6f288bed2.jpg?v=1717707650","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781035047000","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}