IBBOTSON, EVA — Star of Kazan

New York, Dutton. 2004, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0525473475) Hardcover. Book, Annika is happy living in the servants' quarters of a house owned by three eccentric professors. She adores Ellie and Sigrid, the cook and housemaid who found her as a baby, abandoned on a church doorstep. In the eleven years since, they have taught her how to bake and clean to perfection. Then one day a glamorous stranger arrives, claiming to be Annika's mother. Annika is no servant, she learns, but an aristocrat whose true home is an ancient castle. But at crumbling Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her newfound family. 405p. Maps in endpapers. Fine/Near Fine.