num_pages: 288
description: For Napoleon's stepdaughter nothing is simple -- especially love.Paris 1798. Hortense de Beauharnais is engrossed in her studies at a boarding school for aristocratic girls most of whom suffered tragic losses during the tumultuous days of the French Revolution. She loves to play and compose music read and paint and daydream about Christophe her brother's dashing fellow officer. But Hortense is not an ordinary girl. Her beautiful charming mother Josephine has married Napoleon Bonaparte soon to become the most powerful man in France but viewed by Hortense as a coarse unworthy successor to her elegant father who was guillotined during the Terror. Where will Hortense's future lie? Inspired by Hortense's real-life autobiography with charming glimpses of teen life long ago this is the story of a girl chosen by fate to play a role she didn't choose.
language: English
title: The Game of Hope
publisher: Penguin Teen