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Madame Serpent
  • Published: 1 September 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099493174
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99

Madame Serpent

(Medici Trilogy)

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1 June 2011
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1 Sept 2006
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The story of the homesick Italian girl who became the most feared woman in sixteenth-century France...

Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de' Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. On the promise of a dowry fit for a king, Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future for a stake in the French crown.

Amid the glittering fêtes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers. And, tortured by what she sees, Catherine becomes dangerously occupied by a ruthless ambition destined to make her the most despised woman in France: the dream that one day the French crown will be worn be a Medici heir...
  • Published: 1 September 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099493174
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Jean Plaidy

Jean Plaidy, one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also know as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy's novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her death in 1993.

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Also by Jean Plaidy

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The Lion of Justice
The Passionate Enemies
The Spanish Bridegroom
The Queen of Diamonds
Daughter of Satan
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Praise for Madame Serpent

Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama

New York Times

Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of charaterization has become one of the country's most widely read novelists

Sunday Times

Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting

Observer

One of England's foremost historical novelists

Birmingham Mail

Her novels are still very much to be enjoyed ... Any writer who can both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be remembered and find new fans ... One only has to look at the TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still very much there

Matt Bates, WH Smith Travel

Madame Serpent is the best kind of historical novel - one into which we sink with pleasure and a feeling of undeserved education

Spectator

This is at once an exciting and an intelligent novel

Truth Magazine

A colourful story colourfully told

Northern Daily Record
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