Book description
It is 1651 and Charles II, the most fascinating of England's rakes,
is in exile. With him are his younger sister Minette and his buxom
mistress Lucy Water and together they traverse the political and
romantic minefield of the French courts.
Minette soon falls passionately in love with Louis, the young Sun
King. Yet her affections are not returned and heartbroken she must
mollify herself with a marriage to his secretly gay brother,
Phillippe. But at what cost?
These years are given Plaidy's wonderful technicolour treatment as
an enthralling story of love and intigue unfolds.
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.
