Clair-de-Lune has lived all her life with her grand-mother at the top of a vary tall, very narrow, very old building. Her mother, a great ballerina, died on stage when Clair-de-Lune was a baby Ever since that day, Clair-de-Lune has not uttered a word.

Then she meets tiny, brave Bonaventure (a talking dancer-mouse) who takes her to the mysterious monastery hidden in a secret fold of Clair-de-Lune's apartment building.

But this is only the beginning of the beginning of the journey for Clair-de-Lune, and she could never have dreamed what adventures were still to come...

 

Cassandra Golds was born in Sydney and grew up reading Hans Christian Andersen, C S Lewis and Nicholas Stuart Gray over and over again – and writing her own stories as soon as she could a pen. She wrote Clair-de-lune arter coming upon the fascinating fact that many people have difficulty in saying their own name without 'pulling back' their voice. When she was a little girl, she went to ballet lessons at a dancing school quite as intriguing as the one in this book. And she did some of her growing up in an old-fashioned block of flats almost as Clair-de-Lune's