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The City of Tears
(2020)(The second book in the Joubert Family Chronicles series)
A novel by Kate Mosse
A Sunday Times Best Paperbacks of the Year Pick
'A dramatic, immersive tale of secrets, conspiracies, fanaticism and loss' – Daily Mail
The gripping story of one family’s fight to survive against the devastating tides of history – an epic adventure, sweeping from Carcassonne to Paris and Amsterdam.
Paris, 1572. For ten violent years, the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Now, peace has been brokered and a royal engagement announced that could see the country reunited at last.
An invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend the wedding. Little does she know that her family’s most dedicated enemy will also be there, that the Jouberts will soon be forced to flee for their lives to Amsterdam, and that someone she loves dearly will disappear without a trace . . .
'Mosse is a master storyteller' – Madeline Miller, author of Circe
The City of Tears is the second volume in Kate Mosse’s No. 1 international bestselling Joubert Family Chronicles, which began with The Burning Chambers. Continue the adventure with The Ghost Ship.
Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles:
'A tour de force' – The Observer, on The Burning Chambers
'An utterly absorbing epic' – Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Paris Apartment, on The City of Tears
'Meticulously researched and stunningly written' – Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of Wait for Me, on The Ghost Ship
Genre: Historical
'A dramatic, immersive tale of secrets, conspiracies, fanaticism and loss' – Daily Mail
The gripping story of one family’s fight to survive against the devastating tides of history – an epic adventure, sweeping from Carcassonne to Paris and Amsterdam.
Paris, 1572. For ten violent years, the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Now, peace has been brokered and a royal engagement announced that could see the country reunited at last.
An invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend the wedding. Little does she know that her family’s most dedicated enemy will also be there, that the Jouberts will soon be forced to flee for their lives to Amsterdam, and that someone she loves dearly will disappear without a trace . . .
'Mosse is a master storyteller' – Madeline Miller, author of Circe
The City of Tears is the second volume in Kate Mosse’s No. 1 international bestselling Joubert Family Chronicles, which began with The Burning Chambers. Continue the adventure with The Ghost Ship.
Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles:
'A tour de force' – The Observer, on The Burning Chambers
'An utterly absorbing epic' – Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Paris Apartment, on The City of Tears
'Meticulously researched and stunningly written' – Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of Wait for Me, on The Ghost Ship
Genre: Historical
Praise for this book
"That rare thing, a novel with vast scope and ambition, brilliantly achieved, but also deeply personal, finely detailed and nuanced. I was utterly immersed in this spell-binding story." - Rosamund Lupton
"Mosse is a master storyteller." - Madeline Miller
"Mosse is a master storyteller." - Madeline Miller
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