sortTitle Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B Josephine B Trilogy Book 01 crossRefId 20928 series Josephine B. Tags Add tags for 'The many lives & secret sorrows of Josephine B.'. It traces her adjustment to French high society, her love affairs in order to survive the revolution-her husband is guillotined-and her romance with Napoleon. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers. The diary of a Creole beauty from Martinique who became Napoleons wife. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. It traces her adjustment to French high society, her love affairs in order. MediaType eBook shortDescription Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France. The diary of a Creole beauty from Martinique who became Napoleons wife. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages OverDrive Product Record readingOrder 1 images
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