The Joubert Family Chronicles
The Map of Bones
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Kate Mosse
Price: £22.00
On Sale: 10 October 2024
About the Book
'Mosse gives us both the satisfying intricacy of historical fact and a fictional narrative that carries us along at a rollicking pace. The long, rich, tragic history of the Huguenots deserved a series of novels as brilliant and well researched as [The Joubert Family Chronicles], in which the past is felt deep in the reader’s bones' – The Observer
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.
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, arrives in search of her cousin — the notorious she-captain and pirate commander Louise Reydon-Joubert — who landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years before, then disappeared without a trace . . .
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. Intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books, she quickly discovers that the crimes and tragedies still shadow the present. And now, Isabelle faces a race against time if she is to discover the truth, and escape with her life . . .
Painstakingly researched and beautifully told, The Map of Bones is the fourth – and final – novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles, following the bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears and The Ghost Ship.
'This is adventure-stuffed historical fiction in the grand tradition' – The Telegraph
'A fittingly terrific conclusion [to The Joubert Family Chronicles]' – i newspaper
* The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 06-10-24
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Reviews
I kept thinking about Hilary Mantel’s Reith lectures as I was reading The Joubert Family Chronicles. Mantel spoke about fact and fiction being blended in her work like olive oil and egg yolk in mayonnaise – you can’t return them to their original states. Here, Mosse gives us both the satisfying intricacy of historical fact and a fictional narrative that carries us along at a rollicking pace. The long, rich, tragic history of the Huguenots deserved a series of novels as brilliant and well researched as [The Joubert Family Chronicles], in which the past is felt deep in the reader’s bones - The Observer
The fourth and final instalment in Mosse’s Joubert Family Chronicles . . . this is adventure-stuffed historical fiction in the grand tradition - The Telegraph
[The Map of Bones] demonstrates Mosse’s skill in constructing a multi-stranded narrative and filling it with memorable characters - The Sunday Times
The fourth instalment in Mosse’s Joubert Family Chronicles is a fittingly terrific conclusion, with intrepid women, perilous journeys, a search for the truth, and a narrative spanning 17th to 19th century South Africa, it's a gripping, atmospheric novel - i
A sprawling, epic about women adventurers over the centuries that takes us around the globe . . . Thrilling, compelling, a page-turning read - Nuaia McGovern, BBC Woman’s Hour
Product Details
ISBN: 9781035042159
Published: 10 October 2024
480 Pages