ISBN: 0340212349
Godina izdanja: 1977
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Elizabeth Cadell - The Fledgling
Coronet, 1977
188 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

Vitorina`s escort from Lisbon to London wore a cloak of respectability which convinced the child`s father and aunts, but even before the ten-year-old girl had made her disconcerting discovery of his theft from the rich, private chapel of her home, she had begun to take his measure. Circumstances, plus some contrivance on her own part, enabled the youngster to shake him off. Alone, she reached Victoria and the warm if belated welcome of her father`s distant cousin and ex-fiancee, Philippa.

How the gold statuette of St. Christopher had been stolen and how it reached Portugal again, how Philippa changed at the eleventh hour from one bridegroom to another and how, above all, Vitorina throve on her first taste of freedom and found her father really cared about her after all is interwoven into a delightful, readable story. (less)


Elizabeth Violet Cadell was born in 1903 in Calcutta, India. During the Great War she studied music in London, but refused a musical career and returned to India where she married and had two children. After she was widowed ten years later, she returned to England.

Elizabeth wrote her first book `My Dear Aunt Flora` during the Second World War in 1946, thereafter producing another 51 light-hearted, humourous and romantic books which won her a faithful readership in England and America. She moved to Portugal in 1960 and subsequently set many of her books in that country. She died in 1989, aged eighty-five.


Fiction, Romance