Madensky Square

A whip-smart observation of the passions and tragedies behind daily life, Eva Ibbotson''s Madensky Square is a classic snapshot of Viennese life before WWI. Susanna Weber''s dress shop stands in the picturesque Madensky Square, a quiet little world of its own, nestled in the heart of glittering pre-war Vienna. As the winter of 1910 unfurls into spring, Susanna starts a journal about life in the Square, about the buildings and their colourful inhabitants. There''s Frau Schumacher, with six daughters and a baby on the way, Professor Starsky and his menagerie of sickly reptiles, an aging bookseller, a teenaged Anarchist, and little Sigi - an orphaned child prodigy forced to play the piano all day, every day. And then there''s her dear friend Alice, the only person who has noticed the heartbreak that hides beneath Susanna''s brisk kindness and brilliant talent . . . Discover more of Eva Ibbotson''s sweeping historical romances in Magic Flutes, The Morning Gift, The Secret Countess, A Song for Summer and A Company of Swans .

Product details

• Authors: Eva Ibbotson, Ibbotson Eva
• Assisted by: Wood Laura (Introduction)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 16.10.2025
• EAN: 9781035047147
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3504714-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); austria, Historical romance, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Vienna, c 1910 to c 1919, C 1900 - C 1914, Classic fiction: general and literary