The Bee and the Orange Tree by Melissa Ashley - 2019

South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Affirm Press , 2019 369 pages. The book has minimal wear. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Affirm, Melbourne, 2019. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents a powerful weapon: 'fairy tales'.When Marie Catherine's daughter, Angelina, arrives in Paris for the first time, she is swept up in the glamour and sensuality of the city, where a woman may live outside the confines of the church or marriage. But this is a fragile freedom, as she discovers when Marie Catherine's close friend Nicola Tiquet is arrested, accused of conspiring to murder her abusive husband. In the race to rescue Nicola, illusions will be shattered and dark secrets revealed as all three women learn how far they will go to preserve their liberty in a society determined to control them.This… Read More

Melbourne: Affirm Press 2019 First Edition 8vo 369pp, 2019 Very Fine original papered boards, in Very Fine DW.