Awards
Costa Children's Book Award
2009 Shortlist
Troubadour by Mary Hoffman
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Elinor is in love with Bertran, a troubadour. But her parents will not hear of the match and Elinor is to be betrothed to an elderly nobleman. Facing the prospect of a loveless union, she flees her castle to find Bertran... Bertran has been the unlucky witness of a brutal murder for which the Pope will seek a terrible revenge. It is Bertran's duty to warn his fellow heretics that their lands are likely to be forfeit and that Southern France is on the eve of a terrible war... Elinor and Bertran are to meet again as they find themselves enveloped in a rising tide of bloodshed that threatens the very fabric of their society.
Mary Hoffman is an acclaimed children's author and critic. She is the author of the internationally bestselling picture book Amazing Grace. Her Stravaganza sequence for Bloomsbury has its own fan forum and the latest, Stravaganza - City of Secrets, was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and The Falconer's Knot was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award. Mary lives in West Oxfordshire with her husband and has three grown-up daughters.
Judges: "We loved this terrific historical adventure story with its passionate and gutsy heroine."
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