Eleven-year-old Cornelia is the daughter of two world-famous pianists—a legacy that should feel fabulous, but instead feels just plain lonely. She surrounds herself with dictionaries and other books to isolate herself from the outside world. But when a glamorous neighbor named Virginia Somerset moves next door with her servant Patel and a mischievous French bulldog named Mister Kinyatta, Cornelia discovers that the world is a much more exciting place than she had originally thought.<br><br>An unforgettable story of friendship and adventure that takes readers around the world and back again, <i>Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters </i>is a dazzling first novel by Lesley M. M. Blume.