She attended Bedford College, graduating in 1945 Cambridge University from 1946-47 and the University of Durham, from which she graduated with a diploma in education in 1965. When Hitler came into power, her family moved to England.
She was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925. HarperCollins, 2005.Eva Ibbotson (born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner) was a British novelist specializing in romance and children's fantasy. The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures. It's a Harry Potter-like adventure without the fantasy, and a ripping good yarn. Satisfying in the vein of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic A Little Princess or Gail Carson Levine's Dave at Night, Maia's poor-little-rich-girl saga will interest listeners in finding out all about life on the Amazon. She becomes caught up in a mystery when two bumbling English detectives come sniffing around, determined to locate her other new friend, the elusive Bernard Taverner, the now-orphaned half-Indian son of an English naturalist, who might be living in the jungle. Maia is entranced with life in Brazil, marveling over the flora, fauna, and except for her odious relatives, the many people she meets. Her one saving grace is the warm relationship she develops with book-loving, born teacher Miss Minton. Carter, collects glass eyes her officious aunt is at war with all bugs and germs and the twins, her cousins Beatrice and Gwendolyn, are unfailingly rude. When she arrives in Brazil and meets her relatives at their plantation, it becomes clear that they detest the exotic jungle climate, distrust all natives, and need Maia only for the money they think she will bring them. On board their ship, The Cardinal, Maia befriends a fellow orphan, Clovis King, a child actor with a disreputable traveling theater troupe.
Along with her new governess, Miss Minton, orphaned Maia Fielding is sent from her posh London boarding school in 1910 to live with her aunt and uncle and twin cousins on the Amazon River (the "River Sea" of the title), near the city of Manaus, in Brazil.
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