The French Lesson - By the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE

Informationen zum Autor Hallie Rubenhold is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling and Baillie Gifford prize-winning author of The Five, the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper . A renowned social historian whose expertise lies in revealing stories of previously unknown women and episodes in history, she is the author of The Covent Garden Ladies which was the inspiration behind BBC TV's 'Harlots'. Her biographical work, Lady Worsley's Whim, was dramatized by the BBC as 'The Scandalous Lady W'. Her most recent work of non-fiction, Story of a Murder , the wives, the mistress and Dr Crippen , has been optioned for TV. She has also written two acclaimed novels Mistress of My Fate and The French Lesson which give voice to the women written out by eighteenth-century literature . She lives in London with her husband. Meet her @HallieRubenhold Klappentext A brand new historical novel set in the French Revolution by the author of the hit BBC drama "The Scandalous Lady W". Zusammenfassung Henrietta Lightfoot trips on her silk gown as she runs for her life along the bloodstained streets of revolutionary Paris. She finds refuge in the lavish home of Grace Dalyrmple Elliott, one of the old regime's most powerful courtesans. But heads are beginning to roll.

Product details

• Authors: Hallie Rubenhold, Rubenhold Hallie
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.12.2016
• EAN: 9781784162153
• ISBN: 978-1-78416-215-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Black Swan; Henrietta Lightfoot; Henrietta Lightfoot
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Humorous / General, France, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Historical adventure, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Alternative History, FICTION / Romance / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Regency, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Historical adventure fiction, FICTION / Feminist, c 1789 to c 1799 (French Revolutionary period), C 1700 To C 1800, French Revolution