I første del af Sandra Gullands trilogi følger vi Josephines opvækst på Martinique, flytningen til Paris og ægteskabet med den smukke, intelligente og dameglade Alexandre. Vi oplever revolutionen, mødet med Napoleon og vækkelsen af passionen, der er indledningen til ægteskabet med en af verdens mægtigste mænd.
" Napoleons hustru og kejserinde" er historien om en kvindes usædvanlige liv. Historien om hvordan er ung, naiv og uvidende pige bliver en af de mest sofistikerede og magtfulde kvinder i historien. Men også historien om revolution, krig og ikke mindst to af kærlighedens begær og bedrag.
Sandra Gulland (1944) er en canadisk-amerikansk forfatter, som har skrevet historiske romaner om blandt andre Napoleon Bonapartes hustru Josephine og hoffet ved Ludvig XIV af Frankrig. Sandra Gullands romaner har opnået stor international succes og er blevet oversat til flere forskellige sprog.
I'm the author of the JOSEPHINE B. TRILOGY, the internationally best-selling novels based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Napoleon's wife. The Trilogy has been published in 17 countries.
The Trilogy was followed by MISTRESS OF THE SUN and then THE SHADOW QUEEN, a "sister" novel. Both novels are set in the Court of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
THE GAME OF HOPE, a Young Adult novel about Josephine Bonaparte's daughter (and Napoleon's stepdaughter), has been published in Canada and the US.
I am now writing another Young Adult historical novel about a young falconer in Elizabethan England.
An American-Canadian, I was born in Miami, Florida, and lived in Rio de Janeiro, Berkeley and Chicago before immigrating to Canada in 1970 to teach in an Inuit village in northern Labrador.
Settling in Toronto, I worked as a book editor for a decade before moving with my husband and two children to a log house in northeastern Ontario, where, in 1985, I began writing full-time.
Our two children grown, my husband and I now live half the year in Ontario, and half in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
For more information about me, my research and work, go to my website at www.sandragulland.com. I also write a blog, and can be found on the Net in a number of locals: