Abundance: a novel of Marie Antoinette
by Sena Jeter Naslund
Intriguing historical fiction about the life of Marie Antoinette. Marie Antoinette tells her life story beginning with her travel to France to marry at age 14. Descriptions of French court life and her marriage and motherhood draw the reader in. Details like the way people bathed or gambled away their evenings suggest the author did a lot of careful research. I wonder about the accuracy of the depictions of the French Revolution and can't wait to go to the library shelves and read nonfiction titles about the Revolution.
~JD