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Title	:	A Company of Swans
Author	:	Eva Ibbotson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 374 pages
Published	:	September 6th 2007 by Speak (first published July 1st 1985)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Young Adult. Fiction. Historical Romance. Teen

A Company of Swans

Eva Ibbotson

Paperback | Pages: 374 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 9249 Users | 714 Reviews

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For nineteen-year-old Harriet Morton, life in 1912 Cambridge is as dry and dull as a biscuit. Her stuffy father and her opressive aunt Louisa allow her only one outlet: ballet. When a Russian ballet master comes to class searching for dancers to fill the corps of his ballet company before their South American tour, Harriet's world changes. Defying her father's wishes and narrowly escaping the clutches of the man who wishes to marry her, Harriet sneaks off to join the ballet on their journey to the Amazon. There, in the wild, lush jungle, they perform Swan Lake in grand opera houses for the wealthy and culture-deprived rubber barons, and Harriet meets Rom Verney, the handsome and mysterious British exile who owns the most ornate opera house. Utterly enchanted by both the exotic surroundings and by Rom's affections, Harriet is swept away by her new life, completely unaware that her father and would-be fiancé have begun to track her down...

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Original Title:	A Company of Swans
ISBN:	0142409405 (ISBN13: 9780142409404)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.98 From 9249 Users | 714 Reviews

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Imprinting, it's called. The perfect book; the developing reader. The conviction thereafter that all other books are striving to be this one. Why is The Company of Swans *so* good? - and, believe me, even years later, it really is still that good. Partly it's because the plot is pure Cinderella (my favourite trope): Harriet Morton is cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd by the conventions of Edwardian Cambridge. Her widowed father and aunt live unimaginative lives of quiet monotony, and actively

An absolute dream to read. I fell in love with bookish ballerina Harriet, wanted to snatch Henry away from his evil mother, and also fell in swoony love with Rom.Eva Ibbotson's books are all out of this world, but this one maybe even more so than the rest. (Except maybe The Morning Gift, which I think will always be my favourite).

I don't quite know what to do with this little book. It's part believable YA historical novel, and part Harlequinesque romance. I am accustomed romantic historical fiction which reads like, well, historical romance novels. Evidently writers find that the whole mysterious, moody hero meets naive and vulernable heroine in an over-sentimentalized plot sells quite well in the mass market. Usually the heroine will have an appropriately pitiful and tragic past, from which only the hero can redeem her,

I couldn't agree with the morals in the books. I know that a lot of people think that's a stupid reason to hate a book, but it's true. I gave it away (I hate to throw out books) because I couldn't stand it. Certainly clever, and very intriguing, a strong heroine...but I just didn't agree. At all. It was well written though, with some very loveable characters. I just...couldn't get passed the moral thing. I found it in the YA section at my local bookstore...umm I don't think that it's really



I love Eva Ibbotson's writing. It's funny, witty and refreshing. And I liked Harriet too, even though she was humble and quiet and good, which is something I usually can't stand in a heroine. I admired her innocence, enjoyed the detail of ballet life and the intricate and laugh-inducing writing. But abruptly ending my enjoyment came the unfortunate circumstances between pages 287 and 295 and several subsequent pages after that. It wasn't just the acts of adultery that offended and disappointed

Trigger warnings: incredibly controlling and abusive parent and aunt, imprisonment.So the internet seems to indicate that this book was originally published as an adult book and then when Eva Ibbotson's YA writing took off, it got republished as a YA book. I'm really very much hoping that's the case because it's the story of an eighteen year old girl who runs away to Brazil to be a ballet dancer and falls in love with a man who's "not quite thirty". And, like, PLEASE DON'T PROMOTE THOSE KINDS OF