Author(s): Carolly Erickson

Historical Fiction

A compelling novel of the legendary Queen of France, in the tradition of Philippa Gregory's books. Intimate and irresistible, this is the story of Marie Antoinette, one of the most notorious women in history, told in her own words... On the night before she is to be executed, Marie Antoinette leaves in her prison cell a diary she has kept since the age of thirteen. In it, the queen writes of her privileged childhood, her marriage to the heir to the French throne and the glamour and infidelity of her court after her husband ascends the throne as King Louis XVI. But she also writes of the terrifying night the Parisian mob breaks into her palace bedroom and her agony when her beloved husband is guillotined and her young son torn from her arms. Erickson brilliantly captures Marie Antoinette's voice, her hopes, her fears, and her suffering. We follow the queen, mesmerised, to her final days as she awaits her own bloody appointment with Madame Guillotine.