The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780684856063)

Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France.

In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers.

Author: Sandra Gulland
ISBN-10: 0684856069
ISBN-13: 9780684856063
Publisher: Atria Books
Language: English
Published: 08/03/1999
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.32w x 0.98d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/1999 pg. 819
Library Journal 07/01/1999 pg. 131
Ingram Advance 08/01/1999 pg. 56