A brief history of Montmaray

Description

"There's a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings."Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the island. But this is 1936, and the news that trickles in from the mainland reveals a world on the brink of war. The politics of Europe seem far away from their remote island--until two German officers land a boat on Montmaray. And then suddenly politics become very personal indeed.A Brief History of Montmaray is a heart-stopping tale of loyalty, love, and loss, and of fighting to hold on to home when the world is exploding all around you."Once in a while, a special book will cross our paths and make us grateful for life and the ability to read. I'm talking about A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper. I'm calling her Australia's next stroke of literary brilliance."--ViewpointFrom the Hardcover edition.

Description

On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.

Subjects

Genres

• Fiction
• Europe

Other Editions

• A Brief History of MontmarayElectronic resourceRandom House Children's Books2009-01-01
• A brief history of MontmarayKnopf Books for Young Readers2009
• Brief History of MontmarayRandom House Australia2010-01-01
• Brief History of MontmarayRandom House Children's Books2011-01-01
• Brief History of MontmarayRandom House Australia2012-01-01