{"product_id":"9781035047147","title":"Madensky Square","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Ibbotson, Eva \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 16\/10\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 272 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781035047147,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusanna 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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 teenage Anarchist, and little Sigi – an orphaned child prodigy forced to play the piano all day, every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56015149793653,"sku":"9781035047147","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781035047147.jpg?v=1758960110","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781035047147","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}