France, 1572: an English boy and a French girl are married as children to settle a lawsuit, and meet again as strangers in Paris in the week of St Bartholomew. Yonge lived her whole life in one Hampshire village and taught Sunday school for seventy-one years; she read the massacre in the sources and wrote it without either side becoming a monster, which is harder than it sounds and rarer than it should be.
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Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 2
Unknown to History : A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
The Heir of Redclyffe
The Lances of Lynwood
Henrietta's Wish : Or, Domineering
My Young Alcides : A Faded Photograph
The Long Vacation
Lady Hester : Or, Ursula's Narrative
The Clever Woman of the Family
The Young Step-Mother : Or, A Chronicle of Mistakes
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations (Annotated) : Enriched Edition. A Victorian Family Saga of Anglican Duty, Sisterly Responsibility, and Moral Coming of Age
The Wood Beyond the World
The Honor of the Big Snows
The Flaming Forest
The Wanderer's Necklace
Eric Brighteyes
Allan's Wife
Wildfire
The Cloister and the Hearth
Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
A Cumberland Vendetta
The Heart's Highway : A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
The Lady of Blossholme