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The Burning Chambers (The Joubert Family Chronicles)

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Mosse shows a deft command of character and narrative in this second volume of a planned sequence - Sunday Times If you gave Mary Berry flour, butter, eggs and sugar, you could be absolutely sure she’d create the perfect Victoria sponge cake. In the same way, in The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse expertly combines all the ingredients necessary for a deliciously satisfying historical fiction novel…with the Prologue providing the promise of further appetising slices still to come. Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. 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. Languedoc, region in Southern France, was marked by Cathars Inquisitions before the 14th century and after the 15th century the region experienced another Crusade now against Huguenots (French Protestants), who seemed to be putting the strongest resistance in this particular region.

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 . It's 1942, and in Nazi-occupied France, Sandrine – a brave and vivacious nineteen-year-old – is drawn into 'Citadel', a Resistance group in Carcassonne comprised of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything to fight for what is right.

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. Definitivamente Kate Mosse tiene una habilidad impecable para construir una historia alrededor de hechos históricos reales, con lenguaje sencillo, pero muy cuidado, y una apasionante trama. These brutal religious wars were just so terrible, and Mosse does an incredible job of bringing this dark history to life. The corruption threaded through society was rife, and each individual had to keep their wits about them at all times. You literally had no idea who you could trust. And yet, within this environment, neighbours would band together to protect their own against the forces that sought to crush them. Community was still rich and evident, albeit, a little more cautious though.

First-rate cloak and dagger excitement – who knew the religious wars between Catholics and Huguenots in sixteenth-century France could be so riveting to modern audiences? Kate Mosse captures the details of life in the Languedoc region of France, famed for its beauty, but hiding many secrets, in this masterful novel - Margaret George, New York Times bestselling author of The Confessions of Young Nero May, 1706. Ana, a young Spanish woman, lives in a small town on the north-west coast of Tenerife which lies in the shadow of a mighty volcano. Legend says the volcano is home to the Devil himself, but for thousands of years it has stood quietly idle, posing no threat. Bringing sixteenth-century Languedoc vividly to life, Kate Mosse's The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love and betrayal, mysteries and secrets; of war and adventure, conspiracies and divided loyalties . . . If you’re interested in reading about Cathars, highly recommend The Treasure of Montsegur: A Novel of the Cathars by Sophy Burnham. 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. Meanwhile, as a long-hidden document threatens to resurface, the mistress of Puivert is obsessed with uncovering its secret and strengthening her power . . .

I was at a literary festival in South Africa, in the town of Franschhoek, a beautiful town in the wine district of South Africa. As I was being driven towards the town, I noticed a sign with the word "Languedoc," which is the region of France that I write about. It just blew my mind. I couldn't understand why this sign was here on the other side of the world. As we got nearer, I saw that all of the names of the vineyards were French names and, in town, the main street was called Huguenot Street. And at that moment, it was like a chill went down my spine; I needed to know what the story was, what was behind this French connection to South Africa.

After a slow start, it's pretty pacey, and I have to give props for the seriously dark suggestion that those alive at the end of this book might visit Paris for the wedding of Henri III and the feast of Bartholomew. Yet the next book needs to seriously downplay the romance and up the excitement. The Burning Chambers is the first in a planned quartet, which is not a structure you see very often in planned novels. Why four? This as it says is only book one but don't worry as the next book is set in another time zone about different people . As for the wierd title that does make sense but I not tell you'll have read the book won't you. Peoples' circumstances change from generation to generation. Peoples' opportunities, what they think is appropriate or right, what they believe. But the human heart doesn't change very much. This is what drives my writing.

In June 2019, Mosse released The Burning Chambers, [6] the first of a series of novels, beginning in the French Wars of Religion, spanning 300 years from 1562 in Carcassonne, via Amsterdam to 1862 in Franschhoek, Western Cape, South Africa. The second in the series, The City of Tears, [7] was published in 2020. Piet Reydon, originally from Amsterdam, is visiting Carcassonne to do business. He does charitable work for Huguenot community in Toulouse.

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