Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
Eleven-year-old Cornelia is the daughter of two world-famous pianists—a legacy that should feel fabulous, but instead feels just plain lonely. She surrounds herself with dictionaries and other books to isolate herself from the outside world. But when a glamorous neighbor named Virginia Somerset moves next door with her servant Patel and a mischievous French bulldog named Mister Kinyatta, Cornelia discovers that the world is a much more exciting place than she had originally thought.
An unforgettable story of friendship and adventure that takes readers around the world and back again, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters is a dazzling first novel by Lesley M. M. Blume.
$11.99
January 8, 2008
About the Author
Lesley M. M. Blume is an author, journalist, and historian based in Los Angeles. She is the author of several critically acclaimed middle-grade novels, including Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, The Rising Star of Rusty Nail, Julia and the Art of Practical Travel, and Tennyson, which the Chicago Tribune praised for its “brilliant, unusual writing.”
Blume’s adult nonfiction book Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises documented the lives of Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and the Murphys in France in the 1920s and was a New York Times bestseller. Her second adult non-fiction book, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World, received glowing reviews…
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