Finding Emilie by Laurel Corona

Finding Emilie by Laurel Corona

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Finding Emilie by Laurel Corona

Woman is born free, and everywhere she is in corsets. . . . Lili du Chatelet yearns to know more about her mother, the brilliant French mathematician Emilie. But the shrouded details of Emilie's unconventional life-and her sudden death-are elusive. Caught between the confines of a convent upbringing and the intrigues of the Versailles court, Lili blossoms under the care of a Parisian salonniere as she absorbs the excitement of the Enlightenment, even as the scandalous shadow of her mother's past haunts her and puts her on her own path of self-discovery. Laurel Corona's breathtaking new novel, set on the eve of the French Revolution, vividly illuminates the tensions of the times, and the dangerous dance between the need to conform and the desire to chart one's own destiny and journey of the heart.
Finding Emilie gives us an irrepressible heroine in the young Lili du Chatelet, whose life is full of engrossing surprises, mysterious journeys into old, crumbling French estates.. and the rumbling terrors of the French Revolution soon to come.
-Stephanie Cowell, critically acclaimed author of Claude & Camille
A remarkable novel.
-Catherine Delors, author of For the King
This book captures the spirit of the brilliant but controversial and often scandalous Emilie in her daughter Lili's own search for truth and happiness.
-Anne Easter Smith, award-winning author of The King's Grace
Laurel Corona is the author of Finding Emilie, Penelope's Daughter, The Four Seasons, and Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance.
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ISBN 13 9781439197660
ISBN 10 1439197660
Title Finding Emilie
Author Laurel Corona
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Year published 2011-04-12
Number of pages 448
Prizes Winner of San Diego Book Awards (Historical Fiction) 2012
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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