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Viking Books for Young Readers
July 2018
On Sale: June 26, 2018
Featuring: Hortense de Beauharnais
384 pages
ISBN: 0425291014
EAN: 9780425291016
Kindle: B07638XGZ2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult Historical
For Napoleon’s stepdaughter, nothing is simple -
especially love. Paris, 1798. Hortense de Beauharnais is engrossed in her
studies at a boarding school for aristocratic girls, most
of whom have suffered tragic losses during the tumultuous
days of the French Revolution. She loves to play and
compose music, read and paint, and daydream about
Christophe, her brother’s dashing fellow officer. But
Hortense is not an ordinary girl. Her beautiful, charming
mother, Josephine, has married Napoleon Bonaparte, soon to
become the most powerful man in France, but viewed by
Hortense at the outset as a coarse, unworthy successor to
her elegant father, who was guillotined during the Terror. Where will Hortense’s future lie? it may not be in her
power to decide. Inspired by Hortense’s real-life autobiography with
charming glimpses of life long ago, this is the story of a
girl destined by fate to play a role she didn’t choose.
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