The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna Pick (Unabridged) The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna Pick (Unabridged)

The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna Pick (Unabridged‪)‬

    • 4.6 • 32 Ratings
    • $16.99

    • $16.99

Publisher Description

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War II—a story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation.

“Absolute aces...Quinn’s imagination and adventuresome spirit are a pleasure to behold.” —The New York Times

“Utterly heartbreaking and joyous.” —Jo Baker, author of Longbourn

One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, it belongs to the King, but twelve-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household—her sister, Flossie; her brother, Digby, long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitcat, kitchen maid; Taras, visiting artist—build a theatre from the beast’s skeletal rib cage. Within the Whalebone Theatre, Cristabel can escape her feckless stepparents and brisk governesses, and her imagination comes to life.

As Cristabel grows into a headstrong young woman, World War II rears its head. She and Digby become British secret agents on separate missions in Nazi-occupied France—a more dangerous kind of playacting, it turns out, and one that threatens to tear the family apart.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
OV
Olivia Vinall
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
18:23
hr min
RELEASED
2022
October 4
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
1.1
GB

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