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Thomas Dunne
July 2015
On Sale: July 7, 2015
Featuring: Dortchen Wild; Wilhelm Grimm
496 pages
ISBN: 1250047544
EAN: 9781250047540
Kindle: B00R1B5XBW
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Historical | Romance Historical
One of six sisters, Dortchen Wild lives in the small German
kingdom of Hesse-Cassel in the early 19th century. She finds
herself irresistibly drawn to the boy next door, the
handsome but very poor fairy tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm. It
is a time of tyranny and terror. Napoleon Bonaparte wants to
conquer all of Europe, and Hesse-Cassel is one of the first
kingdoms to fall. Forced to live under oppressive French
rule, Wilhelm and his brothers quietly rebel by preserving
old half-forgotten tales that had once been told by the
firesides of houses grand and small over the land. As
Dortchen tells Wilhelm some of the most powerful and
compelling stories in what will one day become his and
Jacob's famous fairy tale collection, their love blossoms.
But Dortchen's father will not give his consent for them to
marry and war, death, and poverty also conspire to keep the
lovers apart. Yet Dortchen is determined to find a
way. Evocative and richly-detailed, Kate Forsyth's
The Wild Girl masterfully captures one young woman's
enduring faith in love and the power of storytelling.
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