Bitter Greens

✍ Scribed by Kate Forsyth

• Book ID: 100096922
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press;Thomas Dunne Books
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 298 KB
• Edition: First U.S. edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1466847832

✦ Synopsis

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**A Library Journal Best Book of 2014: Historical Fiction
**_ _The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the redemptive power of love
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French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. At the convent, she is comforted by an old nun, Soeur Seraphina, who tells her the tale of a young girl who, a hundred years earlier, is sold by her parents for a handful of bitter greens...
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