The City of Tears Paperback / softback

by KATE MOSSE

Part of the The Joubert Family Chronicles series

Paperback / softback

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A Sunday Times Best Paperbacks of the Year Pick‘Mosse is a master storyteller’ – Madeline Miller, bestselling author of CirceSweeping from Carcassonne to Paris and Amsterdam, The City of Tears by Kate Mosse is a thrilling story of one family’s fight to survive against the devastating tides of history . . . May, 1572. For ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France.

But now, peace has been brokered and a royal wedding has been negotiated.

It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last. An invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend this historic wedding in Paris.

What Minou doesn’t know is that her family’s oldest enemy will also be there, that the Jouberts will soon be scattered to the winds after tragedy strikes, and that a beloved child will disappear without trace . . . The City of Tears is the second volume in Kate Mosse’s No. 1 bestselling series, The Joubert Family Chronicles.

It is followed by the third instalment in the series, The Ghost Ship. Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles:'Historical fiction to devour' — Anthony Horowitz, bestselling author of The Twist of the Knife, 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