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The Last Duchess
Laura Powell
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Description for The Last Duchess
Paperback. Series: A Silver Service Mystery. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Meet heroic maid Pattern in The Last Duchess, the first Silver Service Mystery from Laura Powell, illustrated by Sarah Gibb. Pattern is only thirteen, but is already rising through the ranks at Mrs Minchin's Academy of Domestic Servitude and seems destined for a life below stairs. But fate intervenes when she is packed off to the small and secretive Duchy of Elffinberg, to serve as lady's maid to the recently orphaned Grand Duchess. Pattern's young new mistress is excitable and paranoid, yet despite their differences the two girls forge an unlikely friendship that ... Read more
Meet heroic maid Pattern in The Last Duchess, the first Silver Service Mystery from Laura Powell, illustrated by Sarah Gibb. Pattern is only thirteen, but is already rising through the ranks at Mrs Minchin's Academy of Domestic Servitude and seems destined for a life below stairs. But fate intervenes when she is packed off to the small and secretive Duchy of Elffinberg, to serve as lady's maid to the recently orphaned Grand Duchess. Pattern's young new mistress is excitable and paranoid, yet despite their differences the two girls forge an unlikely friendship that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
A Silver Service Mystery
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509808908
SKU
V9781509808908
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99-50
About Laura Powell
Laura Powell, who may or may not be a direct descendant of King Arthur, was born in London, but grew up in the shadow of Carreg Cennen Castle in Wales. Much of her childhood was either spent with her nose firmly in a book, or plotting to escape her boarding school, which she hated. Having studied Classics at university, she ... Read more
Reviews for The Last Duchess
A delightful, heart-warming story.
School Librarian
[An] excellent new series . . . a terrific story of courage, friendship, courtly intrigue and magic.
Lovereading4kids.co.uk
The background to this excellent story, the first in a series, is well-constructed and colourful . . . The tension continues right until the final pages, ably assisted by Sarah Gibb's delightful ... Read more
School Librarian
[An] excellent new series . . . a terrific story of courage, friendship, courtly intrigue and magic.
Lovereading4kids.co.uk
The background to this excellent story, the first in a series, is well-constructed and colourful . . . The tension continues right until the final pages, ably assisted by Sarah Gibb's delightful ... Read more