The Seventh Handmaiden

Greenhill Books

The Seventh Handmaiden\nby Judith Pransky\nPaperback\nUnknown\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Judith Pransky\nTitle: The Seventh Handmaiden\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: Unknown\nTopic: Children\u2019s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction\nPublisher: Greenhill Books\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781784385897\nISBN-10: 1784385891\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nDarya does not remember how she came to be a slave or who she was before she was bought by an army captain for his motherless daughter in the ancient Persian city of Susa. Protected and nurtured by the housekeeper and her daughter, Darya has as good a life as a slave can have, even acquiring the rare skill of reading and writing, which she learns .