- Hardcover: 244 pages
- Publisher: St Martins Pr (Sep 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312153236
- ISBN-13: 978-0312153236
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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A historical romance in which one Harriet Morton comes to life only when she attends her weekly ballet class in 1912. She finds her fortune as a dancer, but all the time she is followed by her father and by the man intent on becoming her husband. From the author of MADENSKY SQUARE.
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Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in love with an aristocratic exile makes her new life complete. Swept away by it all, she is unaware that her father and intended fiance have begun to track her down. . .
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I didn't realise how much i had enjoyed this book and become involved in it until after i had finished the book and began to realise that the wonderful world that it had created was no more.
I started to miss the characters, the story, the setting.
In the story we follow the adventure of Harriet Morton as she leaves home, of her own accord from her father and step mother, to persue her dreams in the world of ballet in the Amazon.
The innocence and wholeheartedness of Harriet wins over many. During her travels she meets Rom - who relocated from England out to the Amazon after the love of his life left him for his brother due to their father changing his will and leaving the estate to him.
The many threads of the story develop and progress, the author painting wonderful images of all the diverse settings. As the story reaches its climax the reader finds the many strands of the story starting to mesh together to form a complete piece. Seemingly separate pieces from separate jigsaws come together in a way that is hard to predict.
The overall themes of the novel are ones of adventure, rebellion, and youth; yet morality, love, respect and truth are kept elevated throughout the story making the book both uplifting and a morally good and positive tale.
A wonderful journey and a novel that makes for a rewarding read.
I started to miss the characters, the story, the setting.
In the story we follow the adventure of Harriet Morton as she leaves home, of her own accord from her father and step mother, to persue her dreams in the world of ballet in the Amazon.
The innocence and wholeheartedness of Harriet wins over many. During her travels she meets Rom - who relocated from England out to the Amazon after the love of his life left him for his brother due to their father changing his will and leaving the estate to him.
The many threads of the story develop and progress, the author painting wonderful images of all the diverse settings. As the story reaches its climax the reader finds the many strands of the story starting to mesh together to form a complete piece. Seemingly separate pieces from separate jigsaws come together in a way that is hard to predict.
The overall themes of the novel are ones of adventure, rebellion, and youth; yet morality, love, respect and truth are kept elevated throughout the story making the book both uplifting and a morally good and positive tale.
A wonderful journey and a novel that makes for a rewarding read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read many other Eva Ibbotson books and this one is just as brilliant.
The novel is set in the early twentieth century (1915 I think?) Harriet is a small intelligent girl with a passion for dancing, who is trapped in her father's loveless cold, grey house.She is then offered a position in the Dubrov Ballet Company and has a huge row with her father because he won't let her go. Then, when she and her aunt's "Tea Ladies", go to visit the Brandon family mansion, Stavely, Harriet has a chance meeting with a small boy called Henry, which sets the story rolling.
This story is wonderfully descriptive, making you feel you really are there seeing what Harriet is seeing, and feeling what she is feeling. The characters are all very unique and endearing and you will remember them long after the last page is turned.
I am in awe of Mrs Ibbotson, a talented author, because of the wonderful way she can describe such deep true love! Wow!
Everyone should buy this book. Young and old. And if you have other Eva Ibbotson books on your shelf you need this one too! They will be lonely without it :)
The novel is set in the early twentieth century (1915 I think?) Harriet is a small intelligent girl with a passion for dancing, who is trapped in her father's loveless cold, grey house.She is then offered a position in the Dubrov Ballet Company and has a huge row with her father because he won't let her go. Then, when she and her aunt's "Tea Ladies", go to visit the Brandon family mansion, Stavely, Harriet has a chance meeting with a small boy called Henry, which sets the story rolling.
This story is wonderfully descriptive, making you feel you really are there seeing what Harriet is seeing, and feeling what she is feeling. The characters are all very unique and endearing and you will remember them long after the last page is turned.
I am in awe of Mrs Ibbotson, a talented author, because of the wonderful way she can describe such deep true love! Wow!
Everyone should buy this book. Young and old. And if you have other Eva Ibbotson books on your shelf you need this one too! They will be lonely without it :)
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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I read Company of Swans years ago before discovering Ibbotson's wonderful novels for children, and was amazed by how much I remembered. She really is several cuts above the usual kind of romance writer, being steeped in culture (music especially) and a sense of character that bring her closer to the ideal world of Jane Austen than the deplorable vogue for chick lit.
Set in the Edwardian era, the novel follows the adventures of Harriet, daughter of a grim and joyless Cambridge professor (academics are always awful in Ibbotson's world)who runs away to join the ballet. The Company are bound for Manaus, the city up the Amazon that Maia also travels to in Journey to the River Sea. It's prima ballerina is a fading Russian star who sees that this plain, intelligent lonely girl has talent; but Harriet has promised an equally lonely small boy that she will find his uncle Rom, who is a rubber-planter in Manaus. Fabulously rich and devastatingly handsome, Rom has mistresses galore but none intrigue him as much as the plain girl dancing in the corps. Meanwhile, Harriet's vile father and aunt have sent the man they want her to marry in hot pursuit of her before she is ruined...
Set in the Edwardian era, the novel follows the adventures of Harriet, daughter of a grim and joyless Cambridge professor (academics are always awful in Ibbotson's world)who runs away to join the ballet. The Company are bound for Manaus, the city up the Amazon that Maia also travels to in Journey to the River Sea. It's prima ballerina is a fading Russian star who sees that this plain, intelligent lonely girl has talent; but Harriet has promised an equally lonely small boy that she will find his uncle Rom, who is a rubber-planter in Manaus. Fabulously rich and devastatingly handsome, Rom has mistresses galore but none intrigue him as much as the plain girl dancing in the corps. Meanwhile, Harriet's vile father and aunt have sent the man they want her to marry in hot pursuit of her before she is ruined...
The plot is less conventional than it sounds, and full of delightful descriptions of character and place. An excellent entertaining read.
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Wonderful book!
I have read 5 Eva Ibbotson novels and this is probably my favourite although they are all beautifully written with interesting story lines, and all with a few cleverly written... Read more
Published 2 months ago by A.H
A-m-A-z-I-n-G
This book is A-m-A-z-I-n-G! One of Ibbotson's best! Really good light-hearted read, captures the spirit of joy. Harriet will be with you long after you turn the final page. Read more
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A Pleasant and Sweet Read
Eva Ibbotson's `A Company of Swans' is a pleasant book and well worth reading. While it is not my favourite of her novels, it contains the little quirks and charms that have become... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Little Miss Bookworm
A refreshingly enthralling light hearted romance
have read a few of Eva Ibbotson's adult books (that are now marketed at teenagers) before and A Company of Swans created a just as or even more enthralling world than her other... Read more
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