I, Coriander

A complicated thread of fairy tales, superstition, and politics weaves through nine-year-old Coriander Hobie`s life and transforms it utterly. Set in Cromwell`s London of the 1650s, Coriander is the beloved daughter of a successful merchant and a locally renowned healing woman. When a pair of dainty silver shoes, just Coriander`s size, appears on their doorstep, she is beside herself with desire for them, but her mother locks them away. Coriander sneaks them out of a locked cabinet, and slips them on in secret. This simple act changes her family`s lives forever, opening the door to the machinations of a dangerous fairy world, and to the suspicious, God-fearing gaze of a Puritanical London. Named one of Publishers Weekly`s Best Children`s Books of 2005. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.