Great for age range 9-12
Sally Gardner is a formidable talent as she manages so successfully to entrance, engage and grip the reader in a historical setting and in the originality of the storyline. The richness of the prose will delight adult and child alike leaving you gasping for breath and clamoring for more.
| Primary Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
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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 realized 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.;Coriander is a heroine to love. Her story will establish Sally Gardner as a children's writer of boundless imagination and originality.
I, Coriander features in the following genres: eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Young Adult Fiction
I, Coriander is available in Paperback, Paperback (b Format)
I, Coriander was written by Sally Gardner and published by Orion Children's Books an imprint of Hachette Children's Group
I, Coriander has 299 pages
£8.09
