Blood Sisters by Melanie Clegg is a sweeping historical adventure set against the stirring backdrop of the French Revolution, and is the latest acquisition for Embrace Historical:
Blood Sisters
When the beautiful Comtesse de Saint-Valèry is dragged unwillingly from her Parisian home in the middle of the night, her three young daughters are left to an uncertain fate at the hands of their father.
As the horror and turmoil of the French Revolution unfold about them, three very different aristocratic sisters – Lucrèce, Adélaïde and Cassandre – struggle to survive the bloodshed, find love, and discover their true selves.
A popular art and history blogger at madameguillotine.org.uk, Melanie Clegg became obsessed with the French Revolution in her early teens after devouring the Scarlet Pimpernel novels of Baroness Orczy, and has been reading voraciously about the subject ever since.
Melanie Clegg told Embrace: ‘Blood Sisters was inspired by the stories of several intrepid, courageous and amazing women who lived through the upheaval of the French Revolution, in particular the Princesse Joseph de Monaco, Emilie de Saint-Amaranthe, Princesse Rosalie Lubomirska and Lucile Desmoulins, all of whom followed very different destinies.’
‘The French Revolution was a period of political upheaval, and of terrifying and appalling violence. I wanted to interweave that political background with my story so my heroines weren’t just passively sitting at home waiting for men to do everything, but getting out there and making history themselves.’
Blood Sisters is an historical epic with a romantic, adventurous edge, and will be published in 2011.
‘I’m extremely thrilled and excited to be working with Embrace,’ adds debut novelist Melanie Clegg. ‘I can’t think of a better home for my story and it’s brilliant to be one of the first writers for what looks to be a great new venture. It’s an honour to be working with and alongside such talented writers.’
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Can’t wait to read this.
Sounds fabulous!
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Rach.
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Look forward to reading this
What a combination! 18th century sisters doing it for themselves against the background of the French Revolution. Definitely will be reading this one!