Invisible in a Bright Light

An imaginative novel [with] a suspenseful challenge and a vivid backstage world of intrigue and romance... Original and rich'' Sunday Times Book of the Week. From I, Coriander to Invisible in a Bright Light , Sally Gardner''s first middle grade novel in 14 years soars with the imagination of a master story-teller. A pitch-perfect story about a crystal chandelier that splinters into a thousand pieces, a girl abandoned as a baby on the steps of an opera house and a dangerous game called the Reckoning. It is 1870 : opening night at the Royal Opera House in a freezing city by the sea, where a huge, crystal chandelier in the shape of a galleon sparkles magically with the light of 750 candles. Celeste, a theatre rat, wakes up in a costume basket from what she hopes is a bad dream, to find that everyone at the theatre where she works thinks she is someone else. When the chandelier falls, she is haunted by a strange girl who claims to know Celeste''s past and why she must risk playing a game called the Reckoning to try to save the people she loves. ''This is a classic Gardner modern fairy tale, full of fabulous locations and mesmerising characters. lt''s a complicated, layered history tale... but do not underestimate this age group''s intelligence and focus; young book lovers will be as delighted as they are challenged'' Big Issue , Books of the Year 2019 .>

Product details

• Authors: Sally Gardner, Gardner Sally
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 9
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781786695239
• ISBN: 978-1-78669-523-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Blended Families