num_pages: 416
description: Corrected version: June 2014 Revolution love and death in the Paris of 1789. A new world is being born and the old regime is going to its death A time when the shadow of the guillotine falls over a nation at war with itself. In France under the last Bourbon king the extravagance grows more outrageous and the unrest of the poor more dangerous. Into this ferment are swept the innocent English Sophie Luttrell visiting France for the first time the French aristocrat Hloise de Guinot who hates the man her parents have arranged for her to marry and Marie-Victoire  the loyal maid who finds herself immersed in revolutionary politics. They are the daughters of the storm which is sweeping France  and over the world. Three women whose lives will be forever marked by this turning point in history and whose passionate struggle for love liberty and for life have such unexpected consequences. About the Author Elizabeth Buchan began her career as a blurb writer at Penguin Books after graduating from the University of Kent with a double degree in English and History. She moved on to become a fiction editor at Random House before leaving to write full time. Her novels include the prizewinning Light of the Moon and Consider the Lily  reviewed in the Independent as a gorgeously well written tale: funny sad and sophisticated. A subsequent novel Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman became an international bestseller and was made into a CBS Primetime Drama. This was followed by several other novels including The Second Wife Separate Beds and Daughters. She has just finished a novel about the SOE operating in Denmark during the Second World War to be published in the summer of 2014. Elizabeth Buchans short stories are broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in magazines. She has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliot literary prizes and also been a judge for the Whitbread (now Costa) awards. She is a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and of The National Academy of Writing.
language: English
title: Daughters of the Storm
publisher: eBookPartnership.com