Finalist in Wishing Shelf Book Awards
Sometimes there is good book news … news that boosts a writer’s flailing confidence! Very happy to see my novel, Lake of Echoes is a finalist in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Read about all the FINALISTS HERE BUY a copy of Lake of Echoes, available in ebook and paperback from all the usual retailers. …
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The Sainte-Marie-du-lac Series Book 1
France seethes in the wake of social unrest, eight-year-old Juliette is caught up in the turmoil of her parents’ fragmenting marriage.
Unable to bear another argument, she flees her home.
Black Plague Enlightened
The year is 1628. ‘Protect us from famine, war and plague, Seigneur,” cry the residents of Lyon, but their plea comes too late. The bubonic plague already crossed the Rhône River in August, terrifying the inhabitants and killing half of them. By 1643 they are desperate, and pray to the Virgin Mary to return good …
One Madame Nobody Wants to Meet!
Once dubbed the “National Razor” of France, Madame La Guillotine was the nickname Parisians gave to the device that beheaded their aristocratic French Revolution enemies, and which they held in great regard. In 1789, Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposed to the French government that decapitation by this lightning-quick machine would be more humane than the much-botched …
Let Them Eat Cake
While this phrase might have been wrongly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution, she certainly was not high on the popularity stakes! The first important event I wanted to mark was the death of Marie Antoinette on 16th October, 1793. At 12h15, several weeks before her 38th birthday, she was guillotined on …
A Tale of the Flesh
Whilst writing my latest novel, Lake of Echoes, I took inspiration from a magazine article I wrote several years ago about the annual blood peach festival of Soucieu-en-Jarrest. This festival features in Chapter 24 of the book. A Tale of the Flesh By Liza Perrat A wide banner yawns into the soughing air. You are …
Happy #Bastille Day #FrenchRevolution
Tomorrow, France celebrates the storming of the Bastille on 14th July, 1789, an important event in Paris during the revolution that had begun two days beforehand. Celebrations are held all over the country, and it is a public holiday. And in the evening, in the rural French village in which I live, a party with …