An imaginative novel [with] a suspenseful challenge and a vivid backstage world of intrigue and romance... Original and rich'' <i>Sunday Times</i> Book of the Week. From <b><i>I, Coriander</i></b> to <b><i>Invisible in a Bright Light</i></b>, Sally Gardner''s first <b>middle grade</b> novel in 14 years soars with the imagination of a master story-teller. A <b>pitch-perfect</b> story about a crystal chandelier that splinters into a thousand pieces, a girl abandoned as a baby on the steps of an opera house and a dangerous game called the Reckoning. It is <b>1870</b>: opening night at the <b>Royal Opera House</b> in a freezing city by the sea, where a huge, crystal chandelier in the shape of a galleon sparkles magically with the light of 750 candles. Celeste, a theatre rat, wakes up in a costume basket from what she hopes is a bad dream, to find that everyone at the theatre where she works thinks she is someone else. When the chandelier falls, she is haunted by a strange girl who claims t
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