![]() ![]() As the weeks and months go by Sophie and her mother hear from Ivan less and less until one day their letters to him return unopened with a note that says that Ivan has been locked in the palace dungeons. Sophie loves to spend time with her father playing chess with him and others at a park, but one day her father must leave, having been given an important job at the Winter Palace, to teach the young Prince Paul how to play chess. Review: This is such a brilliant historical story! Sophie is the daughter of the famous chess player Ivan Peshka who has written a book on the subject. *Free copy provided by publisher for review… Sophie’s plan involves an incredible chess-playing automaton called the Clockwork Queen but will the Queen be able to outwit the Empress in a game where the stakes are a matter of life and death? But now that he has been imprisoned in the dungeons of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg by Empress Catherine the Great, Sophie must use all her strategic skill and cunning to help him escape. ![]() Genre: Older children’s/middle grade fiction, Historical fictionĭescription: Chess prodigy Sophie Peshka inherited the love of the game from her grandmaster father. Title: The Clockwork Queen (Dyslexic friendly) ![]()
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