The Burning Chambers (The Joubert Family Chronicles)

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British Council. "Kate Mosse | British Council Literature". Contemporarywriters.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011 . Retrieved 24 August 2012. The reason I share this context is because this is what Mosse has woven perfectly into her novel of the Burning Chambers. There is an abundance of historical detail here that is stitched into the fabric of the novel so well, you feel it was written for the book. A superb historical fiction author and a brilliantly researched book that is rich with historical references. However, it is a novel and here is the plot. rounded down for an intense and powerful novel set around 1562, Kate Mosse’s The Burning Chambers takes its inspiration from the Political and Religious unrest in France, combines with an intriguing and fascinating plot and well-drawn characters to deliver a wonderful story that is gripping, exciting and tense from start to finish. The Burning Chambers is a chunk of a read, no bones about it. That said, it reads like a dream. It’s gripping, with great tension, and there’s mystery and adventure everywhere you look. The atmosphere is on point, and I was transported to France during this unique and tumultuous time period.

Hewitt, Phil (21 March 2019). "Novelist Kate Mosse becomes a visiting professor at Chichester University". worthingherald.co.uk . Retrieved 27 January 2021. And then of course it was years of research and getting the real history sorted, but it started in that graveyard. I don't decide to write about something. There's something that taps me on the shoulder; it's like a whispering in the landscape.In an attempt to decipher the note and learn the truth behind the mysterious message, Minou sets herself on a path that endangers her own life and that of Piet Reydon. Or is that the other way round? Because Piet is on a mission of his own and the chance encounter proves perilous for both as loyalties are tested. The Edict of Toleration, which was supposed to give Huguenots’ protection, seems to be meaningless. The Duke of Guise has no intention of honoring it. However, all that said, my favorite character was Minou’s little brother. HE is going to grow up to be just the sort of bad-boy-with-a-cause I can get behind, I just know it! The most INTERESTING character is actually the villainess, but the interest of spoilers I’ll leave it at that. A novel with vast scope and ambition, brilliantly achieved . . . I was utterly immersed in this spell-binding story’ – Rosamund Lupton, author of Three Hours Set in the 16th Century during the wars between the Catholics and Huguenots Mosse brings alive the story with the descriptive attention to detail giving a real sense of the period. At times I felt it quite hard going because of the religious aspect but I ploughed on to be rewarded with a entertaining story based around this of divided loyalties, conspiracies, love and betrayal.

Another of Mosse's immersive dramas, which takes you to the heart of the past -- Book of the Week * Grazia * But Mosse has an instinctive feel for the domestic and intimate that steers the reader through vast historical terrain, and Minou and Piet’s devotion as they try to reconcile their opposing religions has overtones of Romeo and Juliet. Carcassonne 1562. Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father's bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: Kate Mosse has returned to what she does best, the French Languedoc period, mixed with a dash of mystery, twists and violence. A thrilling adventure and a heartbreaking love story, The Burning Chambers is a historical novel of excitement, conspiracy and danger like no other . . .Mosse does what good popular historical novelists do best - make the past enticingly otherworldly, while also claiming it as our own - Independent Piet Reydon, originally from Amsterdam, is visiting Carcassonne to do business. He does charitable work for Huguenot community in Toulouse. stars, rounded up. The last quarter really saved the book, and I’m hoping all the meandering and emphasis on the societal aspects of the Huguenot/Catholic wars was setup for the future books in the series, which I will definitely be reading! I feel very strongly that historical fiction helps us stand in other peoples' shoes. It helps us to deal with really strong emotions that maybe, when we're reading about them in the contemporary world, are just too hard to face. But with the benefit of hindsight, and with the benefit of history, sometimes we can engage with all those very strong emotions: love, envy, war, faith. This set in France around a Catholic Girl Minou Joubert sent a strange letter SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE.

Nobody does the Languedoc like Kate Mosse! I didn’t realise the religious wars of France were just as viscious and prolonged as in Britain during the same time period ( Tudors and Stuarts). I was very interested to read this as I have been to Carcassonne and so could clearly visualise the scenes set there and its surrounds. Toulouse: As the religious divide deepens in the Midi, and old friends become enemies, Minou and Piet both find themselves trapped in Toulouse, facing new dangers as sectarian tensions ignite across the city, the battle-lines are drawn in blood and the conspiracy darkens further. In 2012, she published an anniversary book to celebrate 50 years of the Chichester Festival Theatre. Chichester Festival Theatre at Fifty is published by the crowd-funding publishing company Unbound. [8]Once I've done that, I do foot research, as I call it. We've had a little house in Carcassone, in the southwest of France, for 30 years now. When I'm writing I go there for five days of every month to reconnect with the landscape. I have to have all of the research in my files: maps, photographs, detail, all of that. But the real emotional heart of the story begins as I walk the streets, and climb the mountains, and watch the sun go down, and I see the history in the place itself. Before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, she meets a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon. Piet has a dangerous task of his own, and he will need Minou's help if he is to stay alive. Soon, they find themselves on opposing sides, as forces beyond their control threaten to tear them apart. Overall I found it a good but slow moving story with the convergence of the characters at the end a little unrealistic. The Burning Chambers is the first in a series with the second novel The City of Tears due for publication in 2020. I'm pretty sure fans of Ken Follett will enjoy this series. Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father's bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE.

Carcassonne 1562. Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. Rich with historical detail, as you'd expect from Mosse, but it's Minou, the fiery heroine, who makes this a must-read - Book of the Month, Good Housekeeping From the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of Labyrinth, comes the first in an epic new series. Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival.

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Puntos fuertes: lectura ágil y amena gracias a un lenguaje sencillo, diálogos y capítulos breves, una trama bien construida y la confluencia de diferentes subtramas, la envolvente y cuidada ambientación histórica, la intriga en torno a la protagonista y su pasado, personajes bien construidos, la prosa narrativa de la autora y el final. In Kate Mosse's Joubert Family Chronicles series, she takes readers on a thrilling journey from 16th-century France to Paris, Amsterdam, London and beyond, in a gripping story of love, betrayal and divided loyalties. In 1891, seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier, having fled Paris for the sanctuary of her aunt's house near Carcassonne, soon stumbles across a ruined sepulchre and a mystery whose traces are written in blood. Henry VIII still believed in transubstantiation & anyone else who did not was executed even though he was head of the church & split from the Pope he still did not follow consubstantiation . A perfectly combined story of love, deceit, survival and war that draws on real historical events that are authentic and rich in detail. I say perfect because I do love history and the level of detail was just right and described with historical accuracy. The author did an excellent job at capturing the turbulence, the sense of mistrust and need for survival during a period of political instability.