Hamlet by William Shakespeare (p. 52 and p. 290)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (p. 121)
“Lady Clara Vere de Vere” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 127)
“The Holy Grail” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 161)
“The Passing of Arthur” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 172)
“The Jumblies” by Edward Lear (p. 276)
I’d also like to thank Zoe Walton, Zoë Sadokierski, and the rest of the team at Random House Australia; Nancy Siscoe and the team at Knopf; and Rachel Skinner, Rick Raftos, and Catherine Drayton.
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Cooper, Michelle.
A brief history of Montmaray / Michelle Cooper. — 1st American ed.
p. cm.
Summary: On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island
country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal
family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89359-9
[1. Family life—Europe—Fiction. 2. Princesses—Fiction. 3. Islands—Fiction. 4. Europe—
History—1918–1945—Fiction. 5. Diaries—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C78748Bri 2009
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Chapter 2 - 24th October 1936
Chapter 3 - No idea what the date is, 1936
Chapter 4 - 2nd November 1936
Chapter 5 - 3rd November 1936
Chapter 6 - 4th November 1936
Chapter 7 - 6th November 1936
Chapter 8 - 7th November 1936
Chapter 9 - 14th November 1936
Chapter 10 - 16th November 1936
Chapter 11 - 18th November 1936
Chapter 12 - 23rd November 1936
Chapter 13 - 25th November 1936
Chapter 14 - 15th December 1936
Chapter 15 - Boxing Day 1936
Chapter 16 - 28th December 1936
Chapter 17 - 29th December 1936
Chapter 18 - New Year’s Eve 1936
Chapter 19 - 1st January 1937
Chapter 20 - 5th January 1937
Chapter 21 - 7th January 1937
Chapter 22 - 8th January 1937
Chapter 23 - 9th January 1937
Chapter 24 - 10th January 1937
Chapter 25 - 12th January 1937
Chapter 26 - 14th? January 1937
Author’s Note
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