📗 Libro en inglés THE MAP OF BONES

Mosse is a master storyteller Madeleine Miller bestselling author of Circe 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