Dani's Book talk

Dani's Book Talk

A Company of Swans: by Eva Ibbotson

Summary: The book A Company of Swans is about a young women Harriet who finds herself in a number of predicaments and in love. Harriet is brought up in a non-loving family without a mother and with ought many friends. She is set to marry someone who she doesn’t love and is promised a life of misery. Harriet is not happy with this life to be and runs away to Brazil and finds friends, love, and much more. The problem is her old life is catching up with her. Her husband to be is trying to bring her back to the miserable life in England. She to servivee this adventure she has to be cunning, smarts, and keep sane.

Hook: There was no lovelier view in England, Harriet knew this. To her right, the soaring towers of King’s College Chapel and the immaculate lawns sloping down to the river’s edge; to her lefts, the blue and gold of the scillas and daffodils splashed in rich abundance between the trees of the Fellows’ Gardens. Yet as she leaned over the stone parapet of the bridge on which she stood, her face was pensive and her feet- and this was unusual in the daughter of a professor of classics in the year 1912 – were folded in the fifth position.

I would recommend this book to mostly girls’ ages 10 – 14. I would also recommend this to people whom like dancing because it has many dancing references. The book A Company of Swans is available at chapters, kids books, and the class library.