A stunning royal mystery from the Costa Award-winning author of Asha & the Spirit Bird. Anushka is furious. As princess of an Indian kingdom, she has watched the British East India Company take land and her family's most divine jewel - an emerald the size of an apple. So when her father, the Maharaja, decides to visit Queen Victoria at Buckinham Palace, Nush goes too - determined to bring back the gem that can heal her country. A stunning novel by bestselling author Jasbinder Bilan; author of books including Asha & the Spirit Bird, Tamarind & the Star of Ishta and Aarti & the Blue Gods An action-packed royal mystery for ages 9+ Jasbinder is the winner of the Costa Book Award, The Indie Book Award and the Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition, and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize PRAISE FOR JASBINDER BILAN: 'A gorgeous sumptuous read from a master storyteller.' HANNAH GOLD 'A light-filled, huge-hearted delight.' KATHERINE RUNDELL 'Atmospheric, dreamy, charged with wonder and menace, loss, sorrow and delight.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Beautifully written, richly atmospheric and touchingly spiritual.

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