โ Scribed by Judith Merkle Riley
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New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!
"Absorbing and arresting." New York Times
"Fascinating and factual." Los Angeles Times
"Chilly, witty, and completely engrossing ... great, good fun." Kirkus Reviews
"An outstanding historical novel of 17thcentury France ... based on a reallife scandal known as the Affaire des Poisons, this tale is riveting from start to finish." Library Journal
For a handful of gold, Madame de Morville will read your future in a glass of swirling water. You'll believe her, because you know she's more than 150 years old and a witch, and she has all of Paris in the palm of her hand. But Madame de Morville hides more behind her black robes than you know. Her real age, the mother and uncle who left her for dead, the inner workings of the most secret society of Parisian witches: none of these truths would help her outwit the rich who so desperately want the promise of the future. After all, it's her own future she must control , no matter how much it is painted with uncertainty and clouded by vengeance.
"Take a full cup of wit, two teaspoons of brimstone, and a dash of poison, and you have Judith Merkle Riley's mordant, compelling tale of an ambitious young woman who disguises herself as an ancient prophetess in order to gain entry into the dangerous, scheming glamour of the Sun King's court. Based on scandalous true events, The Oracle Glass brims with our human foibles, passions, and eccentricities; it's a classic of the genre and unlike any historical novel you have ever read." C. W. Gortner, author of The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
A bold, exquisitely imagined novel of masquerade and murder, witchcraft, wonder, and romance in the magnificent court of Louis XIV. Skinny, precocious Genevieve possesses the remarkable power to read the swirling waters of an oracle glass. Tutored by the ingenious occultist La Voisin, she reinvents herslf as a mysterious 150-year-old fortune-teller, and revels in the prizes that few women of her time can attain.
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"Absorbing and arresting." --_New York Times_ "Fascinating and factual." --_Los Angeles Times_ "Chilly, witty, and completely engrossing ... great, good fun." --_Kirkus Reviews_ "An outstanding historical novel of 17th-century France ... based on a real-life scandal known as the Affaire des Poisons
"Absorbing and arresting." --_New York Times_ "Fascinating and factual." --_Los Angeles Times_ "Chilly, witty, and completely engrossing ... great, good fun." --_Kirkus Reviews_ "An outstanding historical novel of 17th-century France ... based on a real-life scandal known as the Affaire des Poisons
Seventeenth-century Paris. Genevieve is a skinny, precocious girl with a mind full of philosophy and the remarkable power to read the swirling waters of an oracle glass. Left for dead by her family, she is taken in by the ingenious occultist La Voisin, who rules a secret society of witches that mani
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