The Wolf Princess (PB)
Cathryn Constable
Book cover
UK Price: £6.99
Format: Paperback
Age: 10+
Size: 198x129 mm
Extent: 288pp
ISBN: 978-1-908435-34-7
Publication date: October 2012

World Rights     Rights sold: Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, UK Audio, US Audio, USA

Listen to an audio extract.

Lost diamonds, white wolves, and a princess' secret ...


Sophie and her friends, Marianne and Delphine, are surprised to win places on a school trip to Russia. But the trip does not go as expected.

Abandoned on an express train heading out of St Petersburg, the girls are thrown out at a disused station, where they are rescued and taken to the beautiful but faded Volkonsky Winter Palace, as guests of the exotic Princess Anna Feodorovna Volkonskaya.

Guarded by white wolves, the princess is an enigmatic figure, desperately searching for a rope of lost diamonds that could overturn the Volkonsky bad fortune. At first the girls are mesmerised by her stories but when she takes a special interest in Sophie, they begin to be afraid.

Exciting, atmospheric, romantic and stylish, The Wolf Princess by Cathryn Constable is a timeless fairy tale and mystery-adventure about a girl who discovers she is so much more than she thinks she is.

AUDIO SAMPLE BY KIND PERMISSION OF AUDIOGO, READ BY EVENING STANDARD AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS, HATTIE MORAHAN.

Hold my hand, Sophie. We have to leave!’ It was her father’s voice. She couldn’t see him, but she knew, somehow, that his hair was

Read more ▶

"When I was about nine or ten, I was given a book for Christmas called Little Katia, by E.M. Almedingen. I remember the cover having a drawing of a girl on it – Katia – and something in the combination of the girl’s hat, her fur mittens, the snow and the narrow-trunked trees behind her made the book irresistible to me. I think it was the first book I felt I was actually ‘inside’. That is a delicious feeling.

When I started THE WOLF PRINCESS, I wasn’t sure what the story was going to be but I knew I wanted to put all the Russianness into the book that I remember being so entranced by when I read Little Katia as a child."

 

Author photo
Visit the author