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Zusatztext Teenagers will find it exciting. Informationen zum Autor Patricia Elliott has written nine novels for children and young adults. Her first novel with Hodder! The Ice Boy ! won the Fidler Award for a First Novel and was shortlisted for the Branford-Boase among other awards. Her second! Murkmere ! was long-listed for the Guardian Fiction Award and she has since been short-listed for many others! including the Calderdale and the Wirral Paperback of the Year. Her most recent YA is a Victorian Gothic! The Devil in the Corner . Her new MG series! the Connie Carew Mysteries ! is set in the Edwardian period: The House of Eyes and The Ship of Spectres. Patricia was (and is!) a voracious reader and always scribbled stories during a childhood spent overseas. She worked in publishing in London and in bookselling in New York before taking an M.A. in Writing for Children. She has been a tutor at Morley College! London! and in between writing now leads workshops for both adults and children! including Chelsea Young Writers. She is an active member of CWISL (Children's Writers and Illustrators in South London). She is married! with two sons. www.patriciaelliott.co.uk Terror and treachery in the shadow of the guillotine. Zusammenfassung Eugenie de Boncoeur has fled the violence of the French Revolution to find sanctuary in England at the home of her cousin! Hetta. At first! the two girls find themselves at loggerheads: Hetta can't understand Eugenie's preoccupation with clothes and appearance! and scorns her politics. Soon! however! they are drawn together by a shared sense of danger! for across the Channel waits the vengeful Pale Assassin! determined to claim Eugenie for himself. With her brother's life at stake! how can she refuse his dreadful bargain? But it will mean sacrificing her chance of love and returning to Paris in the grip of the Terror. Eugenie must now decide her destiny - with or without Hetta's help. ...
