num_pages: 432
description: A sumptuous and sensual tale of power romance family and betrayal centered around four sisters and one King. Carefully researched and ornately detailed The Sisters of Versailles is the first book in an exciting new historical fiction trilogy about King Louis XV France's most well-beloved monarch and the women who shared his heart and his bed.Goodness but sisters are a thing to fear.Set against the lavish backdrop of the French Court in the early years of the 18th century The Sisters of Versailles is the extraordinary tale of the five Nesle sisters: Louise Pauline Diane Hortense and Marie-Anne four of whom became mistresses to King Louis XV. Their scandalous story is stranger than fiction but true in every shocking amusing and heartbreaking detail.Court intriguers are beginning to sense that young King Louis XV after seven years of marriage is tiring of his Polish wife. The race is on to find a mistress for the royal bed as various factions put their best foot - and women - forward. The King's scheming ministers push Louise the eldest of the aristocratic Nesle sisters into the arms of the King. Over the following decade the four sisters:sweet naive Louise; ambitious Pauline; complacent Diane and cunning Marie Anne will conspire betray suffer and triumph in a desperate fight for both love and power.In the tradition of The Other Boleyn Girl The Sisters of Versailles is a clever intelligent and absorbing novel that historical fiction fans will devour. Based on meticulous research on a group of women never before written about in English Sally Christie's stunning debut is a complex exploration of power and sisterhood; of the admiration competition and even hatred that can coexist within a family when the stakes are high enough.
language: English
title: The Sisters of Versailles
publisher: Atria Books