A British choirboy with a remarkable voice, whose prodigious talent propelled him to international stardom, Aled Jones achieved more as a teenager than many adult singers do in a lifetime. From multi-million album sales before he was sixteen, he has gone on to perform sell-out tours and now has a hugely successful broadcasting career.
This hair-raising novel, set in turn-of-the-last-century Brazil, introduces Maia, an orphan, sent from England to live with unfamiliar cousins on a rubber plantation. As Maia and her kind governess arrive in their new home, they each have secret hopes of adventure--which are immediately quashed by the Carters, who hate their adopted land are obsessed with re-creating England in the forest, right down to the watery puddings.
€ 18,45