Tread Softly
Published on 15. April 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-340-87343-4 (ISBN)
Description
Mary Devereux and her father, John, have been appointed to embroider a precious cloak for Walter Raleigh, ready for an invitation to Queen Elizabeth I's court. Each stitch carries Mary's dreams and longings as she gets to know the world of high society. Silently she observes gossip, ambition, dark secrets and high vanity and - on one fateful day - murder. Now Mary is being watched - a dangerous traitor suspects she knows more than she should...
Reviews / Votes
'The romance, the danger and the intrigue of Elizabethan England are fully realised in this novel and provide a magical setting.' -- The School Librarian 20051104 'Kate Pennington has written this book as beautifully as the way Mary embroiders. The careful texture of the words ... creates a moving and realistic picture every reader will love.' -- the Historical Novels Review 20051104 'Carefully researched and written with a focus on unknown commoners whose lives are touched by famous members of the nobility... The plot, with its conversations in dark corners and flashing blades, its court pageantry and extravagence - drives along compellingly.' -- Books For Keeps 20051104More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Children's Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Young adult
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
190 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-87343-4 (9780340873434)
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Person
Kate Pennington is a pseudonym for a very successful, million-selling author. She has chosen to publish with a different name because her new work is a major departure from her established work to date - as she writes about favourite, and much loved, areas of history and literature (which formed the backbone to her post-graduate studies in literature).