KATE MOSS
u003cbu003eFrom the Languedoc to Paris and Amsterdam, Kate Mosse's novel sees the Joubert family caught up in the St Bartholomew's Day massacre and a frightening sequence of events thereafter.u003c/bu003eA breathtaking historical novel of revenge, persecution and loss, u003ciu003eThe City of Tearsu003c/iu003e by Kate Mosse follows on from her u003ciu003eSunday Timesu003c/iu003e number one bestseller, u003ciu003eThe Burning Chambers.u003c/iu003eMay 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance and a royal wedding has been negotiated. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last.An invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend this historic wedding in Paris in August. But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert family's oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St Bartholomew, her family will be scattered to the four winds and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace.Sweeping from Paris and Chartres to the City of Tears itself - the great refugee city of Amsterdam - this is a story of one family's fight to stay together and survive against the devastating tides of history.
