City of Crows

Chris Womersley

City of Crows
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Europa Editions
Country
Published
18 September 2018
Pages
384
ISBN
9781609454708

City of Crows

Chris Womersley

Signs, wonders, and witchcraft beset 17th-century France in this grim but spellbinding novel of a mother searching for her son inspired by true events (Kirkus Reviews).

France, 1673. A young woman from the country, Charlotte Picot must venture to the fearsome city of Paris in search of her last remaining son, Nicolas. Either fate or mere coincidence places the quick-witted charlatan Adam Lesage in her path. Adam is newly released from the prison galleys and on the hunt for treasure. But Charlotte, believing him to be a spirit she has summoned from the underworld, enlists his help in finding her child. Charlotte and Adam–comically ill-matched yet essential to one another–journey to Paris, then known as the City of Crows. Evoking pre-revolutionary France with all its ribaldry, superstition, and intrigue, Womersley weaves a haunting tale of the drastic lengths people will go to achieve their deepest desires (Publishers Weekly).

A gothic masterpiece. –Better Read Than Dead

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