Description
Product ID: | 9780008380632 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Embroidered Book |
Authors: | Author: Kate Heartfield |
Page Count: | 672 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fantasy, Fantasy romance, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Historical romance, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Fantasy, Fantasy romance, Myth & legend told as fiction, Historical romance, French Revolution, France, Austria, c 1700 to c 1800 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating *Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel* ‘Spellbinding’ JJA Harwood ‘An entertaining and dark read’ Stylist ‘An absorbing novel’ Guardian ‘Beautifully written’ Elizabeth Chadwick *Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel*‘Spellbinding’ JJA Harwood‘An entertaining and dark read’ Stylist‘An absorbing novel’ Guardian‘Beautifully written’ Elizabeth Chadwick‘Power is not something you are given. Power is something you take. When you are a woman, it is a little more difficult, that’s all’1768. Charlotte, daughter of the Habsburg Empress, arrives in Naples to marry a man she has never met. Her sister Antoine is sent to France, and in the mirrored corridors of Versailles they rename her Marie Antoinette.The sisters are alone, but they are not powerless. When they were only children, they discovered a book of spells – spells that work, with dark and unpredictable consequences.In a time of vicious court politics, of discovery and dizzying change, they use the book to take control of their lives.But every spell requires a sacrifice. And as love between the sisters turns to rivalry, they will send Europe spiralling into revolution.Brimming with romance, betrayal, and enchantment, The Embroidered Book reimagines a dazzling period of history as you have never seen it before. |
Imprint Name: | HarperVoyager |
Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-03-30 |