![]() ![]() ![]() I’m calling her Australia’s next stroke of literary brilliance. I’m talking about A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper. “Once in a while, a special book will cross our paths and make us grateful for life and the ability to read. And then suddenly politics become very personal indeed.Ī 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. Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. The politics of Europe seem far away from their remote island-until two German officers land a boat on Montmaray. There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings. But this is 1936, and the news that trickles in from the mainland reveals a world on the brink of war. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the island. ![]() Teens and 'tweens will be tearing through the novel's second half by the night light. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. Michelle Cooper’s A Brief History of Montmaray breathes new life into the dark and stormy romantic suspense novels that made earlier generations ardent fans of the Brntes, Daphne du Maurier, and Victoria Holt. “There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.” Brief History of Montmaray a (Montmaray Journals) by Cooper, Michelle. ![]()
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