The City of Tears: A Sweeping Historical Adventure from the No. 1 Bestselling Author
Jan 2021 · The Joubert Family Chronicles Book 2 · Pan Macmillan
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A Sunday Times Best Paperbacks of the Year Pick
'A dramatic, immersive tale of secrets, conspiracies, fanaticism and loss' – Daily Mail
The gripping story of one family’s fight to survive against the devastating tides of history – an epic adventure, sweeping from Carcassonne to Paris and Amsterdam.
Paris, 1572. For ten violent years, the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Now, peace has been brokered and a royal engagement announced that could see the country reunited at last.
An invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend the wedding. Little does she know that her family’s most dedicated enemy will also be there, that the Jouberts will soon be forced to flee for their lives to Amsterdam, and that someone she loves dearly will disappear without a trace . . .
'Mosse is a master storyteller' – Madeline Miller, author of Circe
The City of Tears is the second volume in Kate Mosse’s No. 1 international bestselling Joubert Family Chronicles, which began with The Burning Chambers. Continue the adventure with The Ghost Ship.
Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles:
'A tour de force' – The Observer, on The Burning Chambers
'An utterly absorbing epic' – Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Paris Apartment, on The City of Tears
'Meticulously researched and stunningly written' – Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of Wait for Me, on The Ghost Ship
'A dramatic, immersive tale of secrets, conspiracies, fanaticism and loss' – Daily Mail
The gripping story of one family’s fight to survive against the devastating tides of history – an epic adventure, sweeping from Carcassonne to Paris and Amsterdam.
Paris, 1572. For ten violent years, the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Now, peace has been brokered and a royal engagement announced that could see the country reunited at last.
An invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend the wedding. Little does she know that her family’s most dedicated enemy will also be there, that the Jouberts will soon be forced to flee for their lives to Amsterdam, and that someone she loves dearly will disappear without a trace . . .
'Mosse is a master storyteller' – Madeline Miller, author of Circe
The City of Tears is the second volume in Kate Mosse’s No. 1 international bestselling Joubert Family Chronicles, which began with The Burning Chambers. Continue the adventure with The Ghost Ship.
Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles:
'A tour de force' – The Observer, on The Burning Chambers
'An utterly absorbing epic' – Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Paris Apartment, on The City of Tears
'Meticulously researched and stunningly written' – Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of Wait for Me, on The Ghost Ship
A Sunday Times Best Paperbacks of the Year Pick
'A dramatic, immersive tale of secrets, conspiracies, fanaticism and loss' – Daily Mail
The gripping story of one family’s fight to survive against the devastating tides of history – an epic adventure, sweeping from Carcassonne to Paris and Amster...
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September 4, 2020
Excellent. More please.🙏
About the author
Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of eleven novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles (the number one bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship and The Map of Bones), and number one bestselling Gothic fiction. Her highly acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, she is the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, President of the Festival of Chichester, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors and a Trustee of the British Library.
Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of eleven novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling ...
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