The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

Zusatztext "Lauren Willig balances her knowledge of English history with a veritable passion for English spies! turning out a deftly hilarious! sexy novel." — Eloisa James ! author of Kiss Me! Annabel "In her swashbuckling debut...Willig reimagines France under Napoleon besieged by a whole bouquet of spying floral foes...Bad news for the Bonapartes but barrels of good-natured fun for the rest of us." — Library Journal "A juicy mystery...Chick-lit never had it so good!" — Complete Woman "[A] breezy historical romance... The sparks fly." — Publishers Weekly "[A] playful romp…effervescent prose... A sexy [and] determined-to-charm historical-romance debut." — Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Lauren Willig is a law student and Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University. She is the author of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation . Klappentext Everything is coming up carnations in this national bestselling series Realizing romantic heroes are a thing of the past! graduate student Eloise Kelly is determined to focus on her work. Her first stop: England! to finish her dissertation on the English spies of the Napoleonic Wars! like the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. But her greatest conquest is to reveal the most elusive spy of them all! the dashing Pink Carnation. As she does! she discovers something for the history books-a living! breathing hero all her very own... Prologue The Tube had broken down. Again. I clutched the overhead rail by dint of standing on the tippiest bit of my tippy toes. My nose banged into the arm of the man next to me. A Frenchman, judging from the black turtleneck and the fact that his armpit was a deodorant-free zone. Murmuring apologies in my best faux English accent, I tried to squirm out from under his arm, tripped over a protruding umbrella, and stumbled into the denim-covered lap of the man sitting in front of me. “Cheers,” he said with a wink, as I wiggled my way off his leg. Ah, “cheers,” that wonderful multipurpose English term for anything from “hello” to “thank you” to “nice ass you have there.” Bright red (a shade that doesn’t do much for my auburn hair), I peered about for a place to hide. But the Tube was packed solid, full of tired, cranky Londoners on their way home from work. There wasn’t enough room for a reasonably emaciated snake to slither its way through the crowd, much less a healthy American girl who had eaten one too many portions of fish and chips over the past two months. Um, make that about fifty too many portions of fish and chips. Living in a basement flat with a kitchen the size of a peapod doesn’t inspire culinary exertions. Resuming my spot next to the smirking Frenchman, I wondered, for the five-hundredth time, what had ever possessed me to come to London. Sitting in my carrel in Harvard’s Widener Library, peering out of my little scrap of window at the undergrads scuttling back and forth beneath the underpass, bowed double under their backpacks like so many worker ants, applying for a fellowship to spend the year researching at the British Library seemed like a brilliant idea. No more student papers to grade! No more hours of peering at microfilm! No more Grant. Grant. My mind lightly touched the name, then shied away again. Grant. The other reason I was playing sardines on the Tube in London, rather than happily spooling through microfilm in the basement of Widener. I ended it with him. Well, mostly. Finding him in the cloakroom of the Faculty Club at the history department Christmas party in a passionate embrace with a giggly art historian fresh out of undergrad did have something to do with it, so I couldn’t claim he was entirely without a part in the breakup. But I was the one who tugged the ring off my finger and flung it across the room at him...

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Willig
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.10.2010
• EAN: 9780451413017
• ISBN: 978-0-451-41301-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 172 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Pink Carnation Novels; Pink Carnation; Pink Carnation
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature