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Girl At The Lion d'Or
By (Author) Sebastian Faulks
Cornerstone
Penguin (Cornerstone)
26th September 2023
15th June 2023
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical romance
823.92
Paperback
256
Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 15mm
184g
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Beautifully written and extraordinarily moving' SUNDAY TIMES 'A powerful story of love, conscience, will and desire' OBSERVER 'A poised and well-judged work' FINANCIAL TIMES Anne Louvet needs to escape her past, to escape Paris. The Hotel du Lion d'Or and the sea air promise a fresh start. But when she falls into the arms of married veteran Charles Hartmann, she will have to reckon with an all-consuming passion and the secrets that could undo their love. The Girl at The Lion D'Or is a bewitching tale of romance, trust and obsession from a master storyteller.
[A] story of restrained emotions played out in a period setting among picturesque locations . . . Faulks gives every sign of being a real novelist, who thinks and feels through the written word * Guardian *
Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks's books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.