A Company Of Swans

About the author

Joanna Nadin

Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and fled to England with her family when the Nazis came to power. She became a writer while bringing up her four children in Newcastle. Her bestselling novels have been published and loved by readers around the world. Her novels for adults, all rich historical romances, convey her deep love of the arts, the Austrian countryside, and the importance of belong ing. In 2001, her children's novel Journey to the River Sea won the Nestle Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Eva passed away peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.

Eva Ibbotson