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A Sunday Times Best Paperbacks of the Year Pick ‘Mosse is a master storyteller’ – Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe An epic historical adventure, sweeping from Carcassonne to Paris and Amsterdam, The City of Tears by Kate Mosse is the spellbinding second volume of The Joubert Family Chronicles. May, 1572. For ten violent years, the Wars of Religion have raged across France. But when Minou Joubert and her family are invited to attend a historic royal wedding in Paris, it is a sign. Peace has been brokered – the marriage could see France reunited at last. What Minou doesn’t know is that her family’s oldest enemy will also be in attendance, that the Jouberts will soon be scattered to the winds after tragedy strikes, and that a beloved child will disappear without trace . . . A thrilling story of one family’s fight to survive against the devastating tides of history, The City of Tears is the second novel in the series. It is followed by The Ghost Ship. 'Religious fanaticism, political intrigue and the heart-wrenching tale of a lost child . . . with women firmly centre stage' – The Mail on Sunday 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

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Gripping, complex and intensely atmospheric -- <i>Mail on Sunday</i> on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> Another of Mosse's immersive dramas, which takes you to the heart of the past -- <i>Grazia</i> on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> Mosse's fans will relish this tale of secrets, love and treachery -- <i>The Times</i> on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> A powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination * Daily Telegraph * Mosse is a master storyteller -- Madeline Miller, author of <i>Circe</i> Mosse's narrative lyricism, beautifully drawn female characters and deft journey from the past to the present day are a cut above * Scotland on Sunday *

Gripping, complex and intensely atmospheric -- <i>Mail on Sunday</i> on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> Another of Mosse's immersive dramas, which takes you to the heart of the past -- <i>Grazia</i> on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> Mosse's fans will relish this tale of secrets, love and treachery -- <i>The Times</i> on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> A powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination * Daily Telegraph * Mosse is a master storyteller -- Madeline Miller, author of <i>Circe</i> Mosse's narrative lyricism, beautifully drawn female characters and deft journey from the past to the present day are a cut above * Scotland on Sunday * 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, author of <i>Three Hours</i>

Gripping, complex and intensely atmospheric -- <i>Mail on Sunday</i> on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> Another of Mosse's immersive dramas, which takes you to the heart of the past -- <i>Grazia</i> on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> Mosse's fans will relish this tale of secrets, love and treachery -- <i>The Times</i> on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> A powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination * Daily Telegraph * Mosse is a master storyteller -- Madeline Miller, author of <i>Circe</i> Mosse's narrative lyricism, beautifully drawn female characters and deft journey from the past to the present day are a cut above -- <i>Scotland on Sunday </i>on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> A vibrant sequel to 2018's Burning Chambers . . . The Fascinating historical detail fuels the drama and keeps the plot zipping along * Publisher's Weekly * This powerful story of love, secrets and deceit is pacy, rich and stylish - and as compelling as they come. One to stay up late for. -- Isabel Ashdown, author of <i>Lake Child</i> A gorgeously written, utterly absorbing epic and despite being set in the 16th Century has some very pertinent messages for our time about the evils of religious persecution & the transcendent power of love and family. In case it's not clear enough yet, I absolutely LOVED it. -- Lucy Foley, author of <i>The Hunting Party</i> 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, author of <i>Three Hours</i>

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, author of <i>Three Hours</i> A gorgeously written, utterly absorbing epic and, despite being set in the sixteenth century, has some very pertinent messages for our time about the evils of religious persecution and the transcendent power of love and family. In case it's not clear enough yet, I absolutely LOVED it -- Lucy Foley, author of <i>The Hunting Party</i> Magnificent, epic -- Marian Keyes, author of <i>Grown Ups</i> [A] dramatic, immersive tale of secrets, conspiracies, fanaticism and loss * Daily Mail * Mosse's novel is an enjoyable, intricately plotted piece of escapism * The Times * Mosse shows a deft command of character and narrative in this second volume of a planned sequence * Sunday Times * The focus in her historical fiction has always been on the untold stories of women and Minou is an appealing heroine. Mosse includes all the ingredients you would expect from a historical epic - murder, treachery, lost children, stolen relics, buried secrets - but she also dramatises the complexities of 16th-century French and Dutch politics without weighing it down. This is a compelling story of how political upheavals play out in individual lives -- Stephanie Merritt * The Observer * Religious fanaticism, political intrigue and the heart-wrenching tale of a lost child add to a highly readable historical adventure, with women firmly centre stage * Mail on Sunday * Every inch a classic Mosse novel, The City of Tears is diligently researched, beautifully written and, crucially right now, both substantial and immersive - if you want to leave 21st-century pandemic Britain behind, this should be your preferred mode of transport * Radio Times * Deft touches show a mastery of preparation, suspension and resolution within the historical thriller form * Financial Times * This powerful story of love, secrets and deceit is pacy, rich and stylish - and as compelling as they come. One to stay up late for -- Isabel Ashdown, author of <i>Lake Child</i> A vibrant sequel to 2018's Burning Chambers . . . The fascinating historical detail fuels the drama and keeps the plot zipping along * Publisher's Weekly * Mosse's narrative lyricism, beautifully drawn female characters and deft journey from the past to the present day are a cut above -- <i>Scotland on Sunday </i>on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> Mosse is a master storyteller -- Madeline Miller, author of <i>Circe</i> A powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination * Daily Telegraph * Mosse's fans will relish this tale of secrets, love and treachery -- <i>The Times</i> on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> Another of Mosse's immersive dramas, which takes you to the heart of the past -- <i>Grazia</i> on <i>The Burning Chambers</i> Gripping, complex and intensely atmospheric -- <i>Mail on Sunday</i> on <i>The Burning Chambers</i>

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Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of eleven novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles (the number one bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship and The Map of Bones), and number one bestselling Gothic fiction. Her highly acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, she is the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, President of the Festival of Chichester, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors and a Trustee of the British Library.

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