Madensky Square

<p><b>A whip-smart observation of the passions and tragedies behind daily life, Eva Ibbotson's <i>Madensky Square </i>is a classic snapshot of Viennese life before WWI, with a new introduction from Laura Wood.</b><br><br>Susanna Weber's dress shop stands in the picturesque Madensky Square, a quiet little world of its own, nestled in the heart of glittering pre-war Vienna.<br><br>As the winter of 1910 unfurls into spring, Susanna starts a journal about life in the Square, about the buildings and their colourful inhabitants. There's Frau Schumacher, with six daughters and a baby on the way, Professor Starsky and his menagerie of sickly reptiles, an aging bookseller, a teenaged Anarchist, and little Sigi – an orphaned child prodigy forced to play the piano all day, every day. <br><br>And then there's her dear friend Alice, the only person who has noticed the heartbreak that hides beneath Susanna's