The Whale's Tooth Theater

THE QUEEN-CONSORT'S BOOK CLUB CHOICE OF GREAT BRITAIN. A cozy coming-of-age novel in the spirit of the works of Dickens, Lemony Snicket, and «I Capture the Castle». One stormy night in 1928, a huge whale is washed ashore on the coast of the British Channel. By law, the body of the animal belongs to the king, but twelve-year-old Cristabel has other plans. Together with her brother, sister, and several household members, she organizes a theater in the giant skeleton of the whale. There she can hide from her worthless foster parents and their foolish educational schemes. But Cristabel has no idea what role this improvised children's theater will play in her life when, ten years later, she and her younger brother find themselves in the heart of Nazi-occupied France as secret agents of the British crown.