The nightingale's castle
Velton, Sonia2024
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In 1573, Countess Erzsébet Báthory gave birth to an illegitimate child. The infant, a girl, was swiftly bundled up and handed to a local peasant family to be brought up in one of the hamlets surrounding the Castle. Many years later, 15-year-old Boróka reluctantly leaves the safety of the only home she has ever known in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. Trusted members of the countess's household have been sent out to gather new serving girls, and the kindly old man who has taken care of Boróka for almost all her life knows that it is dangerous to turn them away. Boróka struggles to find her place at Cachtice Castle: she is frightened of the countess's reputation as an alleged murderer of young girls, and the women who run the castle are terrifyingly cruel. When plague comes into the heart of the castle, a tentative bond begins to form between Boróka and the Countess Báthory.
Main title:
The nightingale's castle / Sonia Velton.
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Imprint:
London : Abacus Books, 2024.
Collation:
337 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780349146096 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92AFF
LC class:
PR6122.E4
Local class:
FTF
Language:
English
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BRN:
3810837