The story of the homesick Italian girl who became the most feared woman in sixteenth-century France...
Jean Plaidy, one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction
for most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific
English author Eleanor Hibbert, also know as Victoria Holt. Jean
Plaidy's novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by
the time of her deah in 1993.
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Her novels are still very much to be enjoyed ... Any writer who can
both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be
remembered and find new fans ... One only has to look at the
TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still
very much there
*WH Smith Travel*
Madame Serpent is the best kind of historical novel - one into
which we sink with pleasure and a feeling of undeserved
education
*Spectator*
Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama
*New York Times*
Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and
meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of
charaterization has become one of the country's most widely read
novelists
*Sunday Times*
Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting
*Observer*
Her novels are still very much to be enjoyed ... Any writer who can
both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be
remembered and find new fans ... One only has to look at the
TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still
very much there -- Matt Bates * WH Smith Travel *
Madame Serpent is the best kind of historical novel - one
into which we sink with pleasure and a feeling of undeserved
education * Spectator *
Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama * New York
Times *
Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and
meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of
charaterization has become one of the country's most widely read
novelists * Sunday Times *
Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting * Observer *
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