The Fool's Girl
Violetta and her comic companion, Feste, have come to London on a mysterious mission. Their journey has been long and their adventures many-but nothing that would surprise their new friend, Will Shakespeare. Spun from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, this wholly original novel includes enough danger...
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Violetta and her comic companion, Feste, have come to London on a mysterious mission. Their journey has been long and their adventures many-but nothing that would surprise their new friend, Will Shakespeare. Spun from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, this wholly original novel includes enough danger and intrigue, romance and folly to make the Bard proud.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780747597346 (0747597340)
ASIN: 747597340
Publish date: April 1st 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Gorgeously intricate - a tale that transcends time and spirits you across the seas to find the kind of magic that exists in Shakespeare's plays, with a courageous young heroine whose quest to save her homeland is as heartwarming as it is engaging.
*Worum geht's?* Violetta, rechtmäßige Erbin des Throns von Illyrien, und ihr treuer Narr Feste werden aus ihrer Heimat vertrieben, nachdem die Venezianer das Land eroberten. Zudem hat der selbstsüchtige Priester Malvolio eine heilige Reliquie gestohlen, mit der Violetta Illyrien wieder zu Recht, Ord...
...It took me over 6 days to read this book which is surprising because it hardly ever takes me that long to read any book but for some reason, it was hard to get over the first half of this book. The descriptions of each scene and each setting is so great that the words just drip off the pages. The...
One of my favorite free-time activities is to surf on the database of my city's library. From there you can see all the different books they have on the different libraries of this city. The Fool's Girl was among the new books which had arrived to the library. What I love is the fact that you are ab...
I’ve read a good number of the bard’s plays and upon hearing that The Fool’s Girl was based on Twelfth Night was very intrigued, as Twelfth Night is my favorite Shakespeare play. As cool as this book sounded, I didn’t end up loving it. I think Rees had some great ideas and have another one of her ...
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