Brilliance
By: Rosalind Laker
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Severn House Large Print; Severn House Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sutton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780727876713
Subjects: Motion picture industry; Fiction; History
Description: After her grandmother's death, Lisette Decourt moves in with her estranged father and stepmother in Paris and is promptly sent to boarding school. When she returns, her father dies, and Lisette is about to marry when she comes upon her fianc and stepmother in the act. She packs up and runs away. It is the end of the nineteenth century, and Lisette's journey brings her in contact with a traveling lanternist, who specializes in telling stories through slide projection.