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The Secret Countess novel shouldn’t he be a littleBy the award winning and bestselling author of Journey to the River Sea, a novel that sings with characteristic Ibbotson warmth and wit. Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now penniless family is forced to flee to England. Armed with an out of date book on housekeeping, Anna determines to become a housemaid