![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of Creole heritage, Rose has dreams and these are fuelled when a fortune teller informs her she will be a queen one day. Written in the first person (it’s presented as though it’s Josephine’s diary), it commences when Josephine is 14-years-old and then called Rose, the daughter of slightly impoverished landed gentry on the island of Martinique. Well… excuse me while I go and eat my words.įrom the moment I picked up this book, I was hooked. I knew very little (or cared – I am ashamed t o admit) about Josephine or Napoleon (apart from “not tonight, Josephine” – I don’t even know what the context for that is!) and felt there were too many other figures from history that I wanted to learn about and experience through fiction or non-fiction to invest in a three book series. Recommended to me by a girlfriend with impeccable reading taste, I was still, for some reason, somewhat reluctant to read this book. ![]()
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