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I, Coriander

by Sally Gardner

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I, Coriander

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.

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  • 5 out of 5
    I, Coriander

    A thoroughly enjoyable read. It's aimed at children, but I think adults would enjoy this fairytale also. Historically correct in it's setting, it transports you to the 1650's. The characters are brilliantly described and such his Sally Gardner's creative writing that it transports you there, sights sounds and smells! Once I picked this book up I couldn't put it down again.. highly recommended.

    Review by Joanne Green on 00:08, 25 Jul 2009

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ISBN

9781842555040

Published
June 5th 2006 by Orion Publishing Co
Category
General
Number of pages
320
County of origin
UNITED KINGDOM
Dimensions
198 x 129

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