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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction
Two women in seventeenth-century Paris are drawn into the volatile and mysterious Affair of the Poisons after a bid to keep their passionate romance a secret results in deadly violence.
Everyone connected to the court of Louis XIV has something to hide. For the Baroness Marie Catherine, it is the pleasures she seeks outside of her unhappy marriage, indulging in a more liberated existence of decadent salons and discussions with writers and scholars. At the centre of her illicit freedom is her lover Victoire Rose de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Conti, the androgynous, self-assured countess.
When Victoire's devotion results in an act of murder to save Marie Catherine, the pair must escape from the clutches of Paris' overzealous chief of police. As they attempt to outwit him, they are led to the darkest corners of Paris and Versailles, discovering lies, mysticism, and people with secrets they too would kill to keep.
Fast-paced, opulent and hypnotically absorbing, Celia Bell's debut is a love story to die for.
Praise for The Disenchantment
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'The writing has the quality of velvet about it, so lusciously rich that it folds you into a thrilling love story... Beautifully researched.' - Sally Gardner
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