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title: "The Morning Gift Paperback – 26 Mar 2015"
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price: "$74"
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# The Morning Gift Paperback – 26 Mar 2015

**Brand:** eva ibbotson
**Price:** $74
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## Description

About the Author
        	  
        	  
        		  
        			Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and moved to England with her father when the Nazis came into power. Ibbotson wrote more than twenty books for children and young adults, many of which garnered nominations for major awards for children&apos;s literature in the UK, including the Nestl&#xE9; Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Prize. Eva&apos;s critically acclaimed Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Gold Medal in 2001. Set in the , it was written in honour of her deceased husband Alan, a former naturalist. Imaginative and humorous, Eva&apos;s books often convey her love of nature, in particular the Austrian countryside, which is evident in works such as The Star Of Kazan and A Song For Summer. Eva passed away at her home in Newcastle on October 20th 2010. Her final book, One Dog and His Boy, was published in May 2011.

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## Customer Reviews

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    Unashamedly Romantic Read
  

*by S***B on 26 November 2019*

I recently bought a set of four titles by Eva Ibbotson as a present for my niece, but was a little dismayed when they arrived and were described inside as adult novels - I thought Ms Ibbotson only wrote for children or young adults.  Therefore I decided to read them myself and despite romantic fiction not being my ideal reading genre, I was very pleasantly surprised.  ‘The Morning Gift’ was the first book I chose to read and focuses on the very intelligent, golden-haired Ruth Berger, an independently-minded part-Jewish girl who lives in Austria with her family. She is in  love with Heini, a talented, but very self-centred pianist, who puts his own needs far above those around him, but Ruth is so adoring that she fails to see that Heini is more in love with his art than he is with her.  When Austria is annexed by Hitler and it becomes necessary for Ruth to leave her homeland, she agrees to marry English professor, Quin Somerville, in what is intended to be purely a marriage of convenience. However, when the pair arrive in London and attempt to dissolve the marriage, they find that an annulment is not as straightforward as they’d hoped and when they are both thrown together as student and professor at Thameside University, things become even more difficult, especially as their marriage is to be kept a secret. And then along comes Verena Plackett, the confident and very determined daughter of the Vice Chancellor of Thameside, who firmly decides that Quin is the prospective husband she has been saving herself for….With its very engaging heroine this is an unashamedly romantic novel and although I shouldn’t think that anyone reading it would have any real difficulty in predicting how it all will end, it’s also a lovely, comforting story filled with sympathetic characters, apart from the dreadfully superior Verena and her snobbish mother, Lady Plackett - whose scheming machinations to persuade Quin into marriage were very amusing to read. And, although there is the terrible plight of the Jews who were unable to escape Austria and Germany in the background of this story, there are no harrowing details to upset more sensitive readers - which makes me wonder, along with other aspects of the book, whether this wasn’t actually originally intended for older children/young adults.  Either way I still enjoy reading well-written children’s and YA fiction and overall I found this novel an effortless and entertaining bedtime read.4 Stars.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Gorgeous story-telling
  

*by E***H on 19 October 2019*

I can't believe I haven't found this book before now. It's a gripping love story mainly set in 1938 from Vienna to London. The heroine, Ruth, might be rather typically beautiful but she's utterly likeable and interesting and smart. The hero, Quin, is wildly likeable too and that right side of brave and kind and memorable.My favourite part of this story is the sly wit throughout, those careful observations of people and their peculiarities which sets the story-telling on a par with Edith Wharton - and I can give no higher praise than that.If you're looking for smart leads in a tangled love story under the backdrop of a terrifying history, look no further. I honestly can't imagine who wouldn't love this story.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A wonderful book
  

*by M***F on 1 June 2017*

I can't remember how many times I've read this book. I just ordered it again because I can't find my old copy and I want to read it again. A wonderful book, Eva Ibbotson has a very fine sense of humour, her characters are described in a way that you can easily picture them and the story is a feel good story (spoiler, it has a happy ending), despite the horrors of the early days of WWII. Go for it, read it.

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