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This captivating young adult historical fiction novel will transport readers back to the early twentieth century and the ill-fated voyage of the Titanic.
“Your future lies further off . . . It lies beyond a mountain of ice where you will die and live again.”
To Mary Cooke, these words from a weird wisewoman meant little as she travels to Whitwell Hall to become a servant. Although this was 1911—and even on the Isle of Wight smoke from the long liners traveling to America blackened the horizon, bringing a sense that the bustling future was elbowing aside the Victorian past—her own future in domestic service seemed set.
She did not anticipate, however, the manipulative and whirlwind force of her young mistress Amanda Whitewell, who begins by rechristening Mary to “Miranda.” From there, Amanda goes on to decree her duties as a kind of doppelganger and lynchpin to a plot that Amanda devises to marry an American who can maintain her lavish lifestyle.
Amanda—spirited, beautiful, manipulative, restless and lustful.
Miranda—awakening, dutiful, desiring, determined, and finally vengeful.
These two locked in uncanny resemblance are the yin and yang, the upstairs and downstairs of a novel as romantic as the Edwardian twilight and as fated as the passengers who embark from Southhampton for New York on a certain April morning in 1912.
“Your future lies further off . . . It lies beyond a mountain of ice where you will die and live again.”
To Mary Cooke, these words from a weird wisewoman meant little as she travels to Whitwell Hall to become a servant. Although this was 1911—and even on the Isle of Wight smoke from the long liners traveling to America blackened the horizon, bringing a sense that the bustling future was elbowing aside the Victorian past—her own future in domestic service seemed set.
She did not anticipate, however, the manipulative and whirlwind force of her young mistress Amanda Whitewell, who begins by rechristening Mary to “Miranda.” From there, Amanda goes on to decree her duties as a kind of doppelganger and lynchpin to a plot that Amanda devises to marry an American who can maintain her lavish lifestyle.
Amanda—spirited, beautiful, manipulative, restless and lustful.
Miranda—awakening, dutiful, desiring, determined, and finally vengeful.
These two locked in uncanny resemblance are the yin and yang, the upstairs and downstairs of a novel as romantic as the Edwardian twilight and as fated as the passengers who embark from Southhampton for New York on a certain April morning in 1912.
This captivating young adult historical fiction novel will transport readers back to the early twentieth century and the ill-fated voyage of the Titanic.
“Your future lies further off . . . It lies beyond a mountain of ice where you will die and live again.”
To Mary Cooke, these words from a we...
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About the author
Richard Peck (1934-2018) was born in Decatur, Illinois and lived in New York City for nearly 50 years. The acclaimed author of 35 novels for children and young adults, he won the Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder, a Newbery Honor for A Long Way from Chicago, the Scott O’Dell Award for The River Between Us, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Are You in the House Alone?, a Boston Globe-Horn BookAward Honor for The Best Man, and the Christopher Medal for The Teacher’s Funeral. He was the first children’s author ever to have been awarded a National Humanities Medal, and was twice a National Book Award Finalist.
Richard Peck (1934-2018) was born in Decatur, Illinois and lived in New York City for nearly 50 years. The acclaimed author of 35 novels for children and young adults, he won the Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder, a Newbery Honor for A Long Way from Chicago, the Scott O’Dell Award for The Rive...
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