Christie Sally - The Sisters Of Versailles A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Goodness but sisters are a thing to fear. Court intriguers are beginning to sense that young King Louis XV after seven years of marriage is tiring of his Polish wife. The race is on to find a mistress for the royal bed as various factions put their best feet and women forward. The King's scheming ministers push sweet na ve Louise the eldest of the aristocratic Nesle sisters into the arms of the King. Over the following decade she and three of her younger sisters ambitious Pauline; complacent Diane and cunning Marie Anne will conspire betray suffer and triumph in a desperate fight for both love and power as each becomes the king's favourite for a time. In the tradition of The Other Boleyn Girl The Sisters of Versailles is a clever intelligent and absorbing novel that historical fiction fans will devour. Based on meticulous research on a group of women never before written about in English Sally Christie's stunning debut is a complex exploration of power and sisterhood of the admiration competition and even hatred that can coexist within a family when the stakes are high enough.
Title: The Sisters Of Versailles A Novel
Author(s): Christie Sally
Publisher: Atria Books
Barcode: 9781501102967
Pages: 432 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/2015
Series: The Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy
Category: Historical Fiction