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Madensky Square [Audiobook] (Audio Cassette)

by Eva Ibbotson (Author), Juanita McMahon (Narrator)
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Set in Imperial Vienna in 1911, this novel by the author of A Company of Swans mingles humor and poignancy. Susanna, a fashionable dress-maker whose salon is in quiet Madensky Square, decides on the first spring day to keep a journalto which the reader is privy. The diary records Susanna's concerns, hopes and memories, her succinct, witty and sometimes scathing opinions of her neighbors, customers and rivals, and her generous charity toward those she loves. Susanna's story is not unusual: eloping with a soldier in her teens, she bore a daughter whom she gave up for adoption, an act that is the tragedy of her life. She is the secret mistress of an aristocratic field marshal who, when Madensky Square and Susanna's salon are threatened by city planners, manages to avert the disaster. When a young Polish piano prodigy languishes in neglect, Susanna manipulates the coup that makes Sigi the sweetheart of Europe. This refreshing novel in which the heroine overcomes hardship, sticks to her ideals and is satisfied with what happiness life brings her is carried off without sticky sentimentality, Machiavellian wickedness or salacious sex scenes.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The way things should be, Jan 10 2006
By Kate (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Madensky Square (Hardcover)
I admit that I am a romantic - but not of the sicky sweet, bodice ripping, heaving bosom variety. No, my kind of romance takes place in a world where good triumphs over evil, even when it takes a while. Ibbotson is a wonderful writer - I am not a visual person, but her descriptions are so vivid that I really can 'see' the people and places in my mind. Give her books a try - her short stories are also great.
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