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Anastasia's Secret

Publisher:
, 2011
ISBN: 9781599906751
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Overview

For Anastasia Romanov, life as the privileged daughter of Russia's last tsar is about to be torn apart by the bloodshed of revolution. Ousted from the imperial palace when the Bolsheviks seize control of the government, Anastasia and her family are exiled to Siberia. But even while the rebels debate the family's future and the threat to their lives grows more menacing, romance blooms between Anastasia and Sasha, a sympathetic young guard she has known since childhood. But will the strength of their love be enough to save Anastasia from a violent death?

Inspired by the mysteries that have long surrounded the last days of the Romanov family, Susanne Dunlap's new novel is a haunting vision of the life-and love story-of Russia's last princess.

A secret love offers a new fate to Russia's last princess

Growing author: Already a success with The Musician's Daughter, Dunlap has a new hardcover this season featuring Florence Nightingale.
In the vein of notable commercial successses like Lisa Klein's Ophelia, or Jennifer Donnelly's A Northern Light, Dunlap takes a well known story and reinvents it for today's teen reader-blending fact with fiction in a deliciously engaging way.
The fate of the real Anastasia has long fascinated the world. Over the years, various women claimed to be her. DNA evidenced unearthed in April 2008 finally laid to rest the debate about the young tsarina's fate, concluding that bones recovered from the same site as Alexi Romanov were indeed hers.
History made commercial. This has the heart-tugging appeal of real-life tragedies: even though you might know the outcome, you can't help but hope that history got it wrong.
The animated movie Anastasia (1997) featured the voices of Kirsten Dunst, Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd, and Kelsey Grammar-paving the way for younger consumer awareness.

Praise for The Musician's Daughter


"Dunlap skillfully builds suspense until the final page... Readers will root for courageous Theresa through the exciting intrigue even as they absorb deeper messages about music and art's power to lift souls and inspire change." -Booklist


"[S]he's a gutsy, sympathetic heroine who remains true to her friends, in a fast-paced historical adventure that offers a hint of romance." -Kirkus

Dunlap persuasively inhabits the thoughts and emotions of her embattled protagonist; her magnetic reimagining of Anastasia's story has the potential to reach a broad audience.

The last tender moments between the lovers will make readers sigh.

The writing is quite atmospheric, providing a sense of the physical, political, and historical environment at the time. . . . The author articulates the emotions of the characters well, and Anastasia grows from a naive duchess to a young woman attuned to the social and political situation of the day.

Susanne Dunlap graduated from Smith College and later earned a PhD in music hiatory from Yale University. She has taught music history at the college level, and is the author of two historical novels for adults. She is also the author of two novels for young adults, The Musician's Daughter and In the Shadow of the Lamp.




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