The Women of VersaillesPaperback, 1 December 2017

Adelaide, spirited daughter of Louis XV is at odds with her father's decadent but restrictive court of Versailles in 1745, and would rather learn to fence than curtsey. Forty-four years on Madame stalks the corridors of the palace as it is stormed by the women of Paris and Revolution looms. But so much has changed for the hopes of one young girl...