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With what precision and intimacy Ann Pearson explores her chosen era, its nuances, fevers, cherished fantasies and bitter truths! Napoleonic Europe comes alive through its most distinctive voice, that of Stendhal himself, whose perspective gives the story a vividness both fierce and touching. I so enjoyed the narrative's resistless pace and structural originality. Refashioning the past in the form of episodes which ought to have happened, or almost did, is clearly Pearson's special skill, one which Monsieur Beyle himself would admire. --Jonathan Keates Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, author of Stendhal and The Siege of Venice

With what precision and intimacy Ann Pearson explores her chosen era, its nuances, fevers, cherished fantasies and bitter truths! Napoleonic Europe comes alive through its most distinctive voice, that of Stendhal himself, whose perspective gives the story a vividness both fierce and touching. I so enjoyed the narrative's resistless pace and structural originality. Refashioning the past in the form of episodes which ought to have happened, or almost did, is clearly Pearson's special skill, one which Monsieur Beyle himself would admire. --Jonathan Keates Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, author of Stendhal and The Siege of Venice

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Ann Pearson grew up in Suffolk, England, did an Honours degree in French at the University of London before moving to Vancouver where she completed a Ph. D in French literature. Subsequently, she taught French for a number of years before joining the Arts One programme at the University of British Columbia. When she is not at her desk, she is happiest in muddy jeans and wild hair tending her garden, or pursuing Stendhal and other characters down the byways of Europe in the company of her historian partner, Allan. She is currently working on a second Napoleonic era novel, set in Cornwall this time.

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