by Sally Gardner, Wray Delaney · HQ · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780008182533
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«An Almond for a Parrot» is the historical novel by Sally Gardner under the pseudonym Wray Delaney, published by HQ in paperback (416 pages, in English).
London, 1756: Tully Truegood awaits trial in Newgate Prison and tells her life story to reach anyone who might save her from the gallows. Tully goes from maid in the slums to magician's assistant and celebrated courtesan at the Fairy House, a brothel run by her stepmother. A blend of romance, magical realism and mystery with a protagonist accused of murder.
The work was originally published on 3 November 2016; this edition is from 27 July 2017.
For readers of historical fiction and romance with a decadent eighteenth-century London setting and a narrator who mixes magic and survival.
Sally Gardner is a British children's literature writer and illustrator. She won both the Costa Book Award for Children's Book and the Carnegie Medal for Maggot Moon. Under her pseudonym Wray Delaney she has also written adult novels.
