Invisible in a Bright Light

An imaginative novel a suspenseful challenge and a vivid backstage world of intrigue and romance.

A pitch-perfect 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 1870: opening night at the Royal Opera House 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 to know Celeste's past and why she must risk playing a game called the Reckoning to try to save the people she loves. 'This is a classic Gardner modern fairy tale, full of fabulous locations and mesmerising characters. lt's a complicated, layered history tale ...

but do not underestimate this age group's intelligence and focus; young book lovers will be as delighted as they are challenged' Big Issue, Books of the Year 2019.

Un roman imaginativ, o provocare suspansa si o lume vie in culise, a intrigilor si a romantismului. O poveste perfecta despre un candelabru de cristal care se imprastie intr-o mie de bucati, o fata abandonata ca un bebelus pe treptele unei opere si un joc periculos numit socoteala. Este 1870: seara de deschidere la Royal Opera House, intr-un oras inghetat de mare, unde un candelabru imens, de cristal, in forma de galion, scanteie magic cu lumina a 750 de lumanari.