The Red Rose of Rhuvina by Violet Needham – First Edition, 1957

Description The Details:This copy is in good condition. Mild yellowing to pages and some light stains throughout. Small bookshop stamp in front bottom corner. Boards are bright and spine tight. Dust jacket is fair. Chip out of the top back cover (see photo), and normal spine shelf wear for age. The Story:It was only by chance that young Rose Ruvina discovered that her name was the same as that used by a secret society. With her new friend Tony, she overhears the leaders of the society making plans, and finds in the woods near her home, their cache of hand grenades. Whether they are plotting good or bad, it is difficult to decide. Someone must be told, something must be done; but who and what? The children’s summery school days become oppressive with their anxiety. How Rose and Tony are thrust deep into the conspirator’s plot, how they are captured and escape, how they carry messages to the right people at last, makes another of the romantic, exciting stories for which Miss Needham is already well known. The setting is the Duchy of Ornowitza, with its forests and mountains and rambling country houses, already familiar to readers of earlier books. Here again too, are some of the same characters — the Stormy Petrel, for instance, and Anastasia, and Duke Tancrec — whose lives are so rich with high drama and great deeds.(GoodReads) The Author:Author of 19 books for children published between 1939 and 1957. Although she came to writing late — she was 63 when her first book, The Black Riders, was published — her books achieved immediate and lasting popularity with young readers. (GoodReads) Related