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Bitter Greens

Author(s): Kate Forsyth

Location(s): Venice, Versailles

Genre(s): Fairy Tales, Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 16th / 17th Centuries

THREE WOMEN BOUND TOGETHER BY THE STRANDS OF FATE

 

Charlotte-Rose de la Force, exiled from the court of the Sun King Louis XIV, has always been a great teller of tales.

 

Selena Leonelli, once the exquisite muse of the great Venetian artist Titian, is terrified by the passing of time.

 

Margherita, sold by her parents for a handful of bitter greens, is trapped in a doorless tower and burdened by tangles of her red-gold hair. She must find a way to escape.

 

Bitter Greens is a dark, beautifully written retelling of Rapunzel, interwoven with the story of one of the tale’s first tellers.

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