The Mad Women´s Ball
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'A darkly sumptuous tale of wicked spectacle, wild injustice and
the insuppressible strength of women' EMMA STONEX, author of THE
LAMPLIGHTERS'In this darkly delightful Gothic treasure, Mas
explores grief, trauma and sisterhood behind the walls of Paris'
infamous Salpetriere hospital' PAULA HAWKINS, author of A SLOW FIRE
BURNING'A beautifully written debut...I have absolutely no doubt it
will be one of my favourite novels of 2021.' AJ PEARCE, author of
DEAR MRS BIRDThe Salpetriere asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in
thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who
have been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society. But the
truth is much more complicated - for these women are often simply
inconvenient, unwanted wives or strong-willed daughters.Once a year
a grand ball is held at the hospital. For the Parisian elite, the
Mad Women's Ball is the highlight of the social season, for the
women themselves, it is a rare moment of hope. Genevieve is a
senior nurse.After the childhood death of her sister, she has
shunned religion and placed her faith in Doctor Charcot and his new
science. But everything begins to change when she meets Eugenie,
the 19-year-old daughter of a bourgeois family. Because Eugenie has
a secret, and she needs Genevieve's help.Their fates will collide
on the night of the Mad Women's Ball... Now an Amazon Prime film
starring Melanie Laurent. 'Essential reading' COSMOPOLITAN'A deftly
woven tale of hope and pain, judgement and redemption, cruelty and
kindness.Utterly captivating and profoundly affecting.' Sunday
Times bestseller, MIRANDA DICKENSON'Enter the dance of this little
masterpiece and let yourself be dazzled. Assured of hitting the
bestseller lists' THE PARISIAN'A lovely, moving first novel, a cri
de coeur against the condition of women in this world' MARIE
FRANCE'The Mad Women's Ball is as lush on the inside as it is on
the outside! It's richly immersive, taking us right into the heart
of nineteenth-century Paris.' SHELLEY HARRIS, author of the Sunday
Times bestseller JUBILEE
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Victoria Mas
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Victoria Mas
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Transworld Publishers
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Transworld Publishers
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