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Michelle Lovric
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Publisher | Orion | ||
ISBN | 978-144400004 | ||
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Wendy
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Synopsis
It's the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby, can go 'between the linings' to subvert evil and restore order.
Review
This is a book that is written for children and the main character is a girl called Theodora who comes to Venice
with her parents and her subsquent adventures with friend Rezo. The author has cleverly used Venetian legends with notorious people who actually lived in the 15th century.
This is fantasy writing at its best with sea monsters in the deep, ghosts and ghouls in churchyards and narrow passages. My favourites are the beautiful mermaids and their sailors lingo - 'My gils was atwitch,I might have knowed it. Human children smell most peculiar I do declare freely'.
An exciting and well plotted book I loved it.
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