![]() ![]() In the tradition of The Other Boleyn Girl, The Sisters of Versailles is a clever, intelligent, and absorbing novel that historical fiction fans will devour. Over the following decade, she and three of her younger sisters, ambitious Pauline complacent Diane, and cunning Marie Anne, will conspire, betray, suffer, and triumph in a desperate fight for both love and power as each becomes the king’s favourite for a time. The King’s scheming ministers push sweet, naïve Louise, the eldest of the aristocratic Nesle sisters, into the arms of the King. ![]() The race is on to find a mistress for the royal bed as various factions put their best feet, and women, forward. Goodness, but sisters are a thing to fear.Ĭourt intriguers are beginning to sense that young King Louis XV, after seven years of marriage, is tiring of his Polish wife. ![]()
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