The Girl from Versailles, Meghan Masterson
The Girl from Versailles, Meghan Masterson
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The Girl from Versailles
A Heartbreaking Historical Romance Novel in the Time of Marie Antoinette

Author: Meghan Masterson

Narrator: Emily Ellet

Unabridged: 9 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/18/2021

Synopsis

A beautiful debut about Giselle, one of Marie Antoinette’s wardrobe women, who casually spies during the French Revolution torn between her loyalty to the queen and growing unrest in the country.It’s Giselle Aubry’s first time at court in Versailles. At sixteen, she is one of Marie Antoinette’s newest wardrobe ladies in awe of the glamorous queen and her opulent palace life. A budding designer, it’s a dream come true to work with the beautiful fabrics and jewels. Every few weeks she returns home to visit her family in Paris where rumors of revolution are growing.From her position in the royal household, Giselle is poised to see both sides of the tensions erupting throughout Paris. When her uncle, a retired member of the secret spy ring that worked for King Louis XV, suggests that she casually report on the Queen as a game, she leaps at the chance. Spying seems like an adventure and an exciting way to privately support the ideals taking the countryside and Léon Gauvain, the handsome watchmaker who courts her, by storm.But as the revolution continues to gain momentum, and Giselle grows closer to the Queen, one of her few trusted servants, she finds herself dangerously torn. Violence is escalating. She must choose where her true loyalty lies, or risk losing everything … maybe even her head.

About Meghan Masterson

Meghan Masterson graduated from the University of Calgary and worked several unrelated jobs while writing on the side. She was drawn to strong historical figures and situations that presented unexpected opportunities for her characters.

About Emily Ellet

Emily Ellet is a SAG/AFTRA actor, singer, and audiobook narrator based in New York City. She has recorded over 200 audiobooks in every conceivable genre. She is a MAC Award-nominated and critically praised cabaret singer and the winner of the 2017 MetroStar Talent Challenge cabaret competition at the Metropolitan Room in New York City. She has also appeared off-Broadway, on cruise ships, and at regional theaters across the country.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Annette

There are many novels written about Marie Antoinette, but this one shines not much explored light on her. She and her husband, Louis XVI, inherit a throne, but none of them is fit to rule. Both lack the political and economic skills, and not too many books explore this aspect, which this book does. T......more

Goodreads review by Amy

Marie Antoinette (and the French Revolution) is my remarkable person of the year. I have about seven or eight novels depicting her reign, and I have the feeling as with others, that I will tire of her by the end of the year. But this was the perfect entree. Aspiring dressmaker Giselle, gets to know......more

Goodreads review by Kate

I am currently working on a novel set during the French Revolution, and so I am deeply immersed in books on the subject. As well as plowing through all the in-depth biographies and histories I can find, I am also reading novels set during the period. The Wardrobe Mistress is a new addition to the oe......more

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede

I think that writing a book about a woman that worked at the Versailles and got to see firsthand the event's right before the French Revolution and during the revolution was a great idea. Giselle Aubry works as an untertirewoman for Marie Antoinette meant that she could both see how the people rose......more

Goodreads review by Heather

In THE WARDROBE MISTRESS, Masterson deftly captures the tumult of the French Revolution and the tragic unmaking of history’s most infamous queen—Marie Antoinette—through the eyes of clever and likable dressmaker Giselle Aubry. Immersed in scenes of jeweled courtiers, of furtive exchanges between spi......more

Quotes

“Revolutionary fervor, royal politics, and high fashion are stitched together like a couture ball gown…The revolution’s relentless advance toward the guillotine made for breathless reading.” Kate Quinn, author of The Borgia Chronicles

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