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  • Published: 26 February 2018
  • ISBN: 9780718185091
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $24.99
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The Queen of the Night




Not since Patrick Suskind's Perfume has a work of fiction so vividly evoked a time, a place and a passion . . .

Paris, 1882.

Lilliet Berne is a sensation, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the story is based on a hidden piece of her past.

Only four people could have betrayed her.

A blazing tale of lust, ambition and revenge set in the the glitzy, gritty world of Second Empire France, The Queen of the Night follows Lilliet as she transforms herself from circus rider to courtesan to empress's maid to stage ingénue, all the while weaving a web of passion and intrigue.

  • Published: 26 February 2018
  • ISBN: 9780718185091
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

Praise for The Queen of the Night

A celebration . . . of creativity, ingenuity, endurance, mastery and grace

New York Times

A masterfully written book. Chee, just, is masterful. I loved this novel

Roxane Gay

A more impressive, richly imagined novel I have not read in many years. From its heroine's first entrance, The Queen of the Night grabbed me and kept me rapt as it writhed and contorted its way through love and murder, courtesans and empresses, fates and curses

Financial Times

A night at an opera you'll wish never-ending

Helen Oyeyemi, author of 'Boy, Snow, Bird' and 'Mr. Fox'

A spellbinding story of intrigue and self-reinvention

Buzzfeed

A wild opera of a novel and the perfect summer read: swift, smart, immersive and gorgeous

Guardian

An astonishing universe into which its lucky readers can dissolve completely

Karen Russell, New York Times best-selling author of 'Swamplandia' and 'Vampires in the Lemon Grove'

It just sounds terrific. It sounds like opera

New Yorker

Lush and sweeping . . . A moving meditation on the transformative power of fate, art, time, and sheer survival

Publishers Weekly

One doesn't so much read The Queen of the Night as one is bewitched by it

Hanya Yanagihara, author of the Man Booker shortlisted 'A Little Life'

Richly researched and ornately plotted

Kirkus, STARRED review

Sprawling, soaring, bawdy and plotted like a fine embroidery

National Public Radio

Utterly engrossing. You won't want to miss this

Bookish

An epic novel, brilliantly extravagant

Vogue

Readers [will be] absorbed until the final aria, waiting to see whom fate will curse and whom it will avenge

Time