Kate Mosse: The Map of Bones (2025)
ISBN: 9781035042173
Kate Mosse: The Map of Bones (2025)
ISBN: 9781035042173
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A sweeping story of love, adventure and adversity, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land.
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ISBN
9781035042173
Author
Kate Mosse
Pages
477
Binding
Soft cover
Publisher
MACMILLAN
Date of publication
2025
Format
Book
Language
English
Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688.When the violent Cape wind blows from the south-east, they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through the deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, is here towalk in her cousin’s footsteps. Louise Reydon-Joubert, the notorious she-captain and pirate commander, landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years ago, then disappeared from the record as if she had never existed. Suzanne has come to find her – to lay the stories to rest. But all is not as it seems...Franschhoek, Southern Africa, 1862.Nearly one hundred and eighty years after Suzanne’s perilous journey, another intrepid and courageous woman of the Joubert family – Isabelle Lepard – has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek in search of her long-lost relations. A journalist and travel writer, intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books, she quickly discovers that the tragedies and crim
