Large Print Book

The Whalebone Theatre / Joanna Quinn.

ISBN: 9780593663707
ISBN: 0593663705
Physical Description: xiii, 843 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Edition: First large print edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2022]
Copyright: &copy;2022

Quinn, Joanna, 1976- (author.).

Summary:

"One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, all whales belong to the King, but twelve-year-old Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household and their guests--her sister, Flossie (known affectionately as "The Veg"); her brother Digby, the long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitkat, maidservant; Taras, a hot-tempered visiting artist-- a theatre within the whale's skeleton. Cristabel is an orphan, mostly ignored by her feckless step-parents and brisk governesses. But within the Whalebone Theatre, she is fully at home and in charge, and her imagination comes to life. As Cristabel grows into a headstrong young woman, chafing against expectations, World War II rears its head. She and Digby become British secret agents working undercover in Nazi-Occupied France on separate missions--a more dangerous kind of play-acting, it turns out, and one that threatens to tear the family apart. The Whalebone Theatre is a sweeping, transporting, completely irresistible novel, full of warmth and charm, humor and poignancy, passion and adventure--a story of love, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation." -- Provided by publisher.