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<p><b>A <i>Sunday Times </i>Best Paperbacks of the Year Pick</b><br><br><b>‘Mosse is a master storyteller’ – Madeline Miller, bestselling author of <i>Circe</i></b><br><br><b>An epic historical adventure, sweeping from Carcassonne to Paris and Amsterdam, <i>The City of Tears </i>by Kate Mosse is the spellbinding second volume of The Joubert Family Chronicles.</b><br><br><b>May, 1572.</b> For ten violent years, the Wars of Religion have raged across France. But when Minou Joubert and her family are invited to attend a historic royal wedding in Paris, it is a sign. Peace has been brokered – the marriage could see France reunited at last.<br><br>What Minou doesn’t know is that her family’s oldest enemy will also be in attendance, that the Jouberts will soon be scattered to the winds after tragedy strikes, and that a beloved child will disappear without trace . . .<br><br><b>A thrilling story of one family’s fight to survive against the devastating tides of history, <i>The City of Tears </i>is the second novel in the series. It is followed by <i>The Ghost Ship</i>.</b><br><br>'Religious fanaticism, political intrigue and the heart-wrenching tale of a lost child . . . with women firmly centre stage' – <i>The Mail on Sunday </i><br><br><b>Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles:</b><br><br>'A tour de force' — <i>The Observer</i>, on <i>The Burning Chambers</i><br><br>'An utterly absorbing epic' — Lucy Foley, bestselling author of <i>The Paris Apartment</i>, on <i>The City of Tears</i><br><br>'Meticulously researched and stunningly written' — Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of <i>Wait for Me</i>, on <i>The Ghost Ship</i></p>
<p><b>A <i>Sunday Times </i>Best Paperbacks of the Year Pick</b><br><br><b>‘Mosse is a master storyteller’ – Madeline Miller, bestselling author of <i>Circe</i></b><br><br><b>An epic historical adventure, sweeping from Carcassonne to Paris and Amsterdam, <i>The City of Tears </i>by Kate Mosse is the spellbinding second volume of The Joubert Family Chronicles.</b><br><br><b>May, 1572.</b> For ten violent years, the Wars of Religion have raged across France. But when Minou Joubert and her family are invited to attend a historic royal wedding in Paris, it is a sign. Peace has been brokered – the marriage could see France reunited at last.<br><br>What Minou doesn’t know is that her family’s oldest enemy will also be in attendance, that the Jouberts will soon be scattered to the winds after tragedy strikes, and that a beloved child will disappear without trace . . .<br><br><b>A thrilling story of one family’s fight to survive against the devastating tides of history, <i>The City of Tears </i>is the second novel in the series. It is followed by <i>The Ghost Ship</i>.</b><br><br>'Religious fanaticism, political intrigue and the heart-wrenching tale of a lost child . . . with women firmly centre stage' – <i>The Mail on Sunday </i><br><br><b>Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles:</b><br><br>'A tour de force' — <i>The Observer</i>, on <i>The Burning Chambers</i><br><br>'An utterly absorbing epic' — Lucy Foley, bestselling author of <i>The Paris Apartment</i>, on <i>The City of Tears</i><br><br>'Meticulously researched and stunningly written' — Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of <i>Wait for Me</i>, on <i>The Ghost Ship</i></p>