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The French Lesson
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  • Published: 21 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473542013
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 12 hr 0 min
  • Narrator: Julie Teal
  • RRP: $24.99

The French Lesson

By the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE

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21 Apr 2016
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21 Apr 2016
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1 June 2021
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A brand new historical novel set in the French Revolution by the author of the hit BBC drama THE SCANDALOUS LADY W. Recommended read: for fans of THE MINIATURIST and LONGBOURN

'Compelling and operatic...Reads like a modern thriller’ SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, author of The Romanovs

'A dark and irresistible historical novel' LUCY WORSLEY

1789: Henrietta Lightfoot, a young Englishwoman, trips on her silk gown as she runs for her life along the bloodstained streets of revolutionary Paris. She finds refuge in the opulent home of Grace Dalyrmple Elliott, the city’s most celebrated courtesan. But heads are rolling, neighbours fear neighbours, and masters whisper before servants. As the sound of the guillotine echoes outside, within the gilded salons of high society Henrietta becomes a pawn in a vicious game of female power. How will she survive in a world where no one can be trusted?
  • Published: 21 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473542013
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 12 hr 0 min
  • Narrator: Julie Teal
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Hallie Rubenhold

Hallie Rubenhold is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling and Baillie Gifford prize-winning author of The Five, the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. A renowned social historian whose expertise lies in revealing stories of previously unknown women and episodes in history, she is the author of The Covent Garden Ladies which was the inspiration behind BBC TV's 'Harlots'. Her biographical work, Lady Worsley's Whim, was dramatized by the BBC as 'The Scandalous Lady W'. Her most recent work of non-fiction, Story of a Murder, the wives, the mistress and Dr Crippen, has been optioned for TV. She has also written two acclaimed novels Mistress of My Fate and The French Lesson which give voice to the women written out by eighteenth-century literature. She lives in London with her husband. Meet her @HallieRubenhold

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Also by Hallie Rubenhold

The Five
Story of a Murder
The Scandalous Lady W
Harris's List of the Covent Garden Ladies
The Covent Garden Ladies
Mistress of My Fate
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Praise for The French Lesson

Henrietta Lightfoot's exploits in Revolutionary France are irresistible. She's a heroine you can't put down.

LUCY WORSLEY

A deliciously dark novel

Red Magazine

Georgette Heyer meets Flashman ... A gleefully modern retelling of a juicy chapter in history

The Times

Rubenhold unfolds a complicated plot with great dexterity, brilliantly evoking a society in which traditional bonds are being sundered.

Sunday Times

'Compelling and operatic . . . Reads like a modern thriller’

SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, author of The Romanovs
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