Madame Serpent by Jean Plaidy - ISBN: 9780099493174
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Homesick bride becomes France’s most feared, ruthless queen.

Madame Serpent

(Medici Trilogy)

$35.09

  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2006

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Summary

Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de’ Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. On the promise of a dowry fit for a king, Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future for a stake in the French crown.

Amid the glittering fates and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. Humiliated and unloved, Catherin…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099493174
ISBN-10:0099493179
Author:Jean Plaidy
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Arrow Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:1 September 2006
Weight:289g
Dimensions:25mm x 132mm x 197mm
Series:Medici Trilogy
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Madame Serpent by Jean Plaidy - ISBN: 9780099493174
132 × 197 mm
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A4
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What They're Saying

Critics Review

Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama

Her novels are still very much to be enjoyed … Any writer who can both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be remembered and find new fans … One only has to look at the TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still very much there – Matt Bates * WH Smith Travel *
Madame Serpent is the best kind of historical novel - one into which we sink with pleasure and a feeling of undeserved education * Spectator *
Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama * New York Times *
Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of charaterization has become one of the country’s most widely read novelists * Sunday Times *
Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting * Observer *
One of England’s foremost historical novelists * Birmingham Mail *
This is at once an exciting and an intelligent novel * Truth Magazine *
A colourful story colourfully told * Northern Daily Record *

About The Author

Jean Plaidy

Jean Plaidy, one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also known as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy’s novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her death in 1993.

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