Invisible In A Bright Light

- REMAINDER MARKED TITLE - A middle grade novel about a crystal chandelier shaped like a galleon 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. From I Coriander to Invisible in a Bright Light Sally Gardners first middle grade novel in 14 years soars with the imagination of a master story-teller. A pitch perfect haunting story about a crystal chandelier shaped like a galleon 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 Celestes past and why she must play a game called the Reckoning to try to save the people she loves.