The Burning Chambers

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Author: Mosse, Kate Historical adventurePublished on 10 April 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Pan Books) in the United Kingdom as part of The Joubert Family Chronicles series.Paperback | 60 8 pages197 x 131 | 410g The Sunday Times No. 1 BestsellerA tour de force – The ObserverBringing sixteenth-century France vividly to life, Kate Mosse’s historical epic The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love, betrayal, war and conspiracy.Carcassonne, 1562. On the eve of the wars that will tear France apart, nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE.But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot, Piet Reydon, profoundly reshapes her destiny. For Piet has a mission of his own, and he will need Minou’s help if he is to get out of La Cité alive . . .A thrilling historical adventure and a heartbreaking boy-meets-girl love story, The Burning Chambers is the first volume in Kate Mosse’s No. 1 international bestselling Joubert Family Chronicles. Continue the story with The City of Tears.Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles:Historical fiction to devour – Anthony Horowitz, bestselling author of Close to Death, on The Burning ChambersAn utterly absorbing epic – Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Paris Apartment, on The City of TearsMeticulously researched and stunningly written – Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of Wait for Me, on The Ghost Ship Show more