The kingdom of little wounds
By: Susann Cokal
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Somerville, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9780763666941
Subjects: Royal houses; Young adult fiction; Princesses; Wet nurses; Women dressmakers; Fiction
Description: On the eve of Princess Sophia's wedding the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn prepares to fete the occasion with a sumptuous display of riches. Yet beneath the veneer of celebration, a shiver of darkness creeps through the palace halls. A mysterious illness plagues the royal family, threatening the lives of the throne's heirs, and a courtier's wolfish hunger for the king's favors sets a devious plot in motion. In the palace at Skyggehave, things are seldom as they seem -- and when a single errant prick of a needle sets off a series of events that will alter the course of history, the fates of seamstress Ava Bingen and mute nursemaid Midi Sorte become irrevocably intertwined.

A young seamstress and a royal nursemaid at the center of an epic power struggle navigate a tangled web of palace intrigue, power lust, and deception. The plot contains sexual situations, and graphic violence.
Notes: "Ex officina lucubrantium."

Accelerated Reader UG 6.8 21 21 163709