Book description
It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from
England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds
of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and
mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the
journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new
experiences in this highly colourful, joyous and award-winning
adventure.
Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but spent her early childhood
travelling backwards and forwards across Europe between the homes of
her father, a scientist, and her mother, a novelist, who separated
when she was three. When the Nazis came to power, her family fled to
England. She lives in Newcastle, where she brought up her four
children and has written the best-selling novels for both adults and
children that have been published all around the world.
