French Lesson

Henrietta Lightfoot trips on her silk gown as she runs for her life along the bloodstained streets of revolutionary Paris. She finds refuge in the lavish home of Grace Dalyrmple Elliott, one of the old regime's most powerful courtesans. But heads are beginning to roll.

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"Henrietta Lightfoot's exploits in Revolutionary France are irresistible. She's a heroine you can't put down." LUCY WORSLEY "A deliciously dark novel" Red Magazine "Georgette Heyer meets Flashman ... A gleefully modern retelling of a juicy chapter in history" The Times "Rubenhold unfolds a complicated plot with great dexterity, brilliantly evoking a society in which traditional bonds are being sundered." Sunday Times "'Compelling and operatic ... Reads like a modern thriller'" SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, author of The Romanovs