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The Land Lubbers Lying Down Below

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241965429

  • Length: 64  Pages

  • RRP: £2.99

The Land Lubbers Lying Down Below

'Tonight it is the concert. Two Prodigies of Nature are coming to play in my lady's ball-room. As soon as the concert begins I understand why the whole world comes to stare and listen.'

Scipio is eleven years old and a lady's page. He plays the harpsichord, speaks French and German, and sings in Italian. But what was appealing and remarkable in a small child is no longer so in a 'hobbledehoy'. And after he meets the two child prodigies, Wolfi and Nannerl, at a concert, Scipio's fate will change forever.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241965429

  • Length: 64  Pages

  • RRP: £2.99

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  • An enchanting tale inspired by Mozart's childhood concerts that reads like a sketch for a full-length novel

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About the Author

Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children's author and poet. She published twelve novels including Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Orange Prize in 1996; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She was posthumously awarded the Costa 2017 prize for her poetry collection Inside the Wave.

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