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The French Lesson Hallie Rubenhold

The French Lesson By Hallie Rubenhold

The French Lesson by Hallie Rubenhold

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Summary

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.

The French Lesson Summary

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

'A thrilling novel of female intrigue, betrayal and revenge. Read it!' LUCY WORSLEY
'Dark and delicious' Red Magazine
'Utterly gripping and highly relevant' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE
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Fear your neighbour. Praise the Republic. Preach liberty. Hate monarchy. Speak in whispers. Trust no-one.

Revolutionary Paris, 1792: As the city spirals into bloodshed, Henrietta Lightfoot a young Englishwoman runs for refuge to the sumptuous home of Grace Dalrymple, notorious courtesan to the aristocracy. But loyalties are tested when she meets Agnes de Buffon, committed revolutionary and mistress of the most powerful man in France. Trapped in an unpredictable game between two dangerous women, Henrietta is about to learn a brutal lesson.

A tale of friendship and loyalty in tumultuous times, The French Lesson is a gripping drama of female power and influence, as the women written out of history tell their own astonishing story of ingenuity and sacrifice.

PERFECT FOR FANS OF HARLOTS and BRIDGERTON
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'A gleefully modern retelling of a juicy chapter in history' The Times
'Rubenhold unfolds a complicated plot with great dexterity' Sunday Times

The French Lesson Reviews

Henrietta Lightfoot's exploits in Revolutionary France are irresistible. She's a heroine you can't put down. LUCY WORSLEY A deliciously dark novel Red Magazine Georgette Heyer meets Flashman ... A gleefully modern retelling of a juicy chapter in history The Times Rubenhold unfolds a complicated plot with great dexterity, brilliantly evoking a society in which traditional bonds are being sundered. Sunday Times 'Compelling and operatic ... Reads like a modern thriller' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, author of The Romanovs

About Hallie Rubenhold

Hallie Rubenhold is the Number One Sunday Times bestselling and Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction prize-winning social historian whose expertise lies in revealing stories of previously unknown women and episodes in history. As well as The Covent Garden Ladies, Rubenhold's works of non-fiction include the award-winning and Number One bestselling The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper and Lady Worsley's Whim, dramatized by the BBC as 'The Scandalous Lady W'. Her latest work of non-fiction, Bad Women, the story of the disappeared wives and partner of Dr Crippen, is due to be published in 2022. She has also written two acclaimed novels Mistress of My Fate and The French Lesson which are a feminist homage to the literary tropes of the Eighteenth Century. She lives in London with her husband. Meet her @HallieRubenhold

Additional information

GOR008029124
9781784162153
1784162159
The French Lesson: By the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE by Hallie Rubenhold
Hallie Rubenhold
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Transworld Publishers Ltd
20161229
368
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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