The Sisters of Versailles by Sally Christie

She’s now settled in Toronto and loving it. As a child she moved around with her family and then continued her wandering as she pursued a career in international development she’s lived in 14 different countries and worked in many more. Sally Christie was born in England of British parents but grew up mostly in Canada. Telling the story of a group of women never before written about in English, Sally Christie’s stunning debut is a complex exploration of power and sisterhood-of the admiration, competition, and even hatred that can coexist within a family when the stakes are high enough. In the tradition of The Other Boleyn Girl, The Sisters of Versailles is a clever, intelligent, and absorbing novel that historical fiction fans will devour.

Over the following decade, the four sisters-sweet, naïve Louise ambitious Pauline complacent Diane, and cunning Marie Anne-will conspire, betray, suffer, and triumph in a desperate fight for both love and power.

The King’s scheming ministers push Louise, the eldest of the aristocratic Nesle sisters, into the arms of the King. The race is on to find a mistress for the royal bed as various factions put their best foot-and women-forward. Their scandalous story is stranger than fiction but true in every shocking, amusing, and heartbreaking detail.Ĭourt intriguers are beginning to sense that young King Louis XV, after seven years of marriage, is tiring of his Polish wife. Set against the lavish backdrop of the French Court in the early years of the 18th century, The Sisters of Versailles is the extraordinary tale of the five Nesle sisters-Louise, Pauline, Diane, Hortense, and Marie-Anne-four of whom became mistresses to King Louis XV. Goodness, but sisters are a thing to fear.

The French Revolution and Marie Antoinette have been extensively written about it’s time for fans of that time period to step further back in time and to explore the reign of Louis XV (1715 – 1774) a time of increasing social turbulence and change that sets the stage neatly for the Revolution that follows. The Sisters of Versailles centers on the (relatively, at least for the genre) overlooked period of early 18 th century France. Publisher: Atria Books (September 1, 2015)Ĭarefully researched and ornately detailed, The Sisters of Versailles is the first book in an exciting new historical fiction trilogy about King Louis XV, France’s most “well-beloved” monarch, and the women who shared his heart and his bed. Series: The Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy I received a free copy of The Sisters of Versailles from TLC Book Tours for my honest review.

The Sisters of Versailles by Sally Christie