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Two women in seventeenth-century Paris are drawn into the volatile and mysterious Affair of the Poisons after a bid to keep their passionate romance a secret results in deadly violence
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This is historical storytelling at its most captivating. Celia Bell puts the body itself back in time: smells, sights, fears, sensation propel us into the epicentre of a 17th century Paris where breaking out of the prison of arranged marriage is only one of the many challenges confronting women. I couldn't put it down.
Two women in seventeenth-century Paris are drawn into the volatile and mysterious Affair of the Poisons after a bid to keep their passionate romance a secret results in deadly violence