000			01175nam a2200181 4500
010			_a2003682260
020			_a9780684856063
024			_a40354824
050			_aPS3557.U445
082			_a813.54
100	1		_aSandra Gulland
245	1		_aThe Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
260			_bScribner
300			_a436 pages
520			_aIn this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers.
650			_aHistorical Fiction
999			_c18137 _d18137