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The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna Pick A Novel
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ā¢ A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK ā¢ A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War IIāa story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation.
āAbsolute aces...Quinnās imagination and adventuresome spirit are a pleasure to behold.ā āThe New York Times
āUtterly heartbreaking and joyous.ā āJo 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 householdāher sister, Flossie; her brother, Digby, long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitcat, kitchen maid; Taras, visiting artistābuild a theatre from the beastās 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 Franceāa more dangerous kind of playacting, it turns out, and one that threatens to tear the family apart.
āAbsolute aces...Quinnās imagination and adventuresome spirit are a pleasure to behold.ā āThe New York Times
āUtterly heartbreaking and joyous.ā āJo 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 householdāher sister, Flossie; her brother, Digby, long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitcat, kitchen maid; Taras, visiting artistābuild a theatre from the beastās 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 Franceāa more dangerous kind of playacting, it turns out, and one that threatens to tear the family apart.
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ā¢ A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK ā¢ A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War IIāa story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation.
āAbsolute aces...Quinnās imagination and adventuresome spirit are a pleasure to behold.ā āThe New York Times
āUtterly heartbreaking and joyous.ā āJo 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 householdāher sister, Flossie; her brother, Digby, long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitcat, kitchen maid; Taras, visiting artistābuild a theatre from the beastās 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 Franceāa more dangerous kind of playacting, it turns out, and one that threatens to tear the family apart.
āAbsolute aces...Quinnās imagination and adventuresome spirit are a pleasure to behold.ā āThe New York Times
āUtterly heartbreaking and joyous.ā āJo 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 householdāher sister, Flossie; her brother, Digby, long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitcat, kitchen maid; Taras, visiting artistābuild a theatre from the beastās 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 Franceāa more dangerous kind of playacting, it turns out, and one that threatens to tear the family apart.
