Idgie Says: Here's a lush summer historical romance for you - perfect for beach, pool or that rainy day! (not a review, just a shout out)
THE FORTUNE HUNTER (St. Martin’s Press; July 29, 2014)
is a brilliant, new novel that explores the irresistibility of the
public lives and private longings of grand
historical figures. Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is
the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as
captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is
unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz
Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal
life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a
horse.
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Author Bio:
DAISY
GOODWIN, a Harkness scholar who attended Columbia University’s film
school after earning a history degree at Cambridge University, is now a
leading television producer in the UK.
She is also a book reviewer for the London Times
and was Chair of the judging panel of the 2010 Orange Prize for
Fiction. Daisy and her husband, an ABC TV executive, have two daughters
and live
in London. Visit www.DaisyGoodwin.co.uk
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