I Coriander

This is a book, set between 1650-60, about a girl called Coriander, who lives with her father, mother and a maid called Danes. Her life is perfect, when one day she finds a pair of beautiful shoes, her mother tells her not to wear them and that when she was young she had a pair just like them but they took her to a different world. Corianders' mother dies early on in the book, and so her father must remarry a puritan. This is because there were men at the time who were taken and hanged by Oliver Cromwell, because they had apparently been trying to help the king escape from the country. For a couple of months Coriander lives with Maude her puritan stepmother, Hester her stepsister, Danes and her father. Her father is sent a letter telling him he is to be hanged, so Coriander is left alone with Maude and a evil preacher, called Arise Fell. Arise Fell and Maude are both horrible to Hester and Coriander, so Coriander needs to get away. Arise and Maude lock Coriander in a chest for three years, but inside the chest is a totally different world and in that world Coriander has only been gone for one day. Coriander meets all sorts of people in this world including a man called Medlar, who tells Coriander what is happening and why she is there. There is an evil queen called Rosmore who she has cast a spell on a young man called Tycho because he refuses to marry Rosmores' daughter. Coriander has to break this spell so Tycho does not die, but she cannot save him without going back into her own world to get her mothers shadow, the shadow that will give her the power to save the land and Tycho. Read this book to find out if Coriander suceeds in her mission to save Tycho and will she decide to return to her own own world?
This is a great book and full of imagination, I liked it.     8/10                 O.M