The Bee and the Orange Tree is a beautifully lyrical and deeply absorbing portrait of a time, a place, and the subversive power of the imagination. This keenly-awaited second book from Melissa Ashley, author of The Birdman’s Wife, restores another remarkable, little-known woman to her rightful place in history, revealing the dissent hidden beneath the whimsical surfaces of Marie Catherine’s fairy tales. In the race to rescue Nicola, illusions will be shattered and dark secrets revealed as all three women learn how far they will go to preserve their liberty in a society determined to control them. A wonderfully lyrical and stunning piece of historical fiction, Melissa Ashley’s The Bee and the Orange Tree transports you to Paris 1699, while telling the captivating and forgotten story of Baroness Marie Catherine D’Aulnoy, the inventor of fairy tales. But this is a fragile freedom, as she discovers when Marie Catherine’s close friend Nicola Tiquet is arrested, accused of conspiring to murder her abusive husband. Epic GuardianEscapism at its finest - Shannon, we salute you StylistAn enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and. When Marie Catherine’s daughter, Angelina, arrives in Paris for the first time, she is swept up in the glamour and sensuality of the city, where a woman may live outside the confines of the church or marriage. Dreams of growing an orchard full of jasmine and aloe go unfulfilled in Jokha Alharthi.
In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D’Aulnoy invents a powerful weapon: ‘fairy tales’. In Jokha Alharthi’s novel Bitter Orange Tree, thwarted desires are passed down through generations.
But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. It’s 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women.
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