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Before the Storm [Kindle Edition]

Melanie Clegg
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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'This is the first novel I've read by this author and definitely won't be my last! Oh I loved it, so eloquently written. It's completely restored my interest in this period in history.'

'Just wonderful and a complete bargain - do yourself a favour & grab a copy, I've treasured the time I spent losing myself in the story.'

'Brilliant - romps along like a carriage rushing away from Paris.'

'Gripping account of women as sisters, friends & rivals in revolutionary Paris.'

'A fantastic, nerve-wracking adventure.'

'Elegant and absorbing.'

Unable to attract suitably aristocratic suitors in London, a group of beautiful, wealthy and extremely ambitious English heiresses decide to try their luck in Paris instead. Although they initially take the city of light by storm, they soon discover that the glittering facade of social success hides a multitude of sins and iniquities while their own dark secrets and an implacable enemy could well destroy everything that they have worked so hard to achieve.

Based on The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton, Before the Storm is a tale of passion, betrayal, illicit love and friendship set against the backdrop of the opulent and often treacherous worlds of Georgian London, Marie Antoinette's Versailles and the bloodshed and terror of Revolutionary Paris.

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Product Details

  • File Size: 445 KB
  • Print Length: 237 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: Madame Guillotine (January 16, 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B006YK2HN8
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,237 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Lively history March 6, 2012
By Lucy
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Lively, well written, delightfully detailed historical fiction. My only complaint is that it ended too soon and a bit abruptly, I wanted more. Otherwise, I found it super readable, engaging, and can say from a lot of reading on the period that the author knows her details of everyday life of the times. Well done and insightful too in depicting the relationships between men and women, which are not so different than now, but taking place at a time when women had their hands tied behind their backs, so to speak, and moving into a time of great social upheaval. I look forward to more books from this writer.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Very enlightening April 5, 2012
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Another good look into the french revolution and its effect on the french aristocracy by Melanie Clegg. This story details the societal expectations of women during this tragic period. Four women from England's new class of wealthy merchants travel to France in search of titled husbands after being snubbed by the nobel class in England. The story follows the tragedy and success of these exploits. MS clegg does a really good job of describing the mobs and aristocrats during the violence in Versailles and Paris. I do think 4 women muddled the story somewhat. I also think the ending was cut short. However, I recommend the book as it is an interesting book with Great characters and really good background settings.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable Book May 12, 2013
By Lisa M
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I really enjoyed this book. It was the first book I have read by Melanie Clegg and was hard to put down. I am really looking forward to reading more books by Melanie Clegg.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful period romance October 24, 2012
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Before the Storm follows 2 English sisters and 2 or 3 of their friends as they and their mothers persue their quest for a husband in the period before the French Revolution. They all end up in Paris and find French titled men, and we follow their lives through some of the Revolutionary period as well. I think I enjoyed the first half of the book over the second half. The second part jumps ahead from the very early days of the Revolution to a point about 3 years later. I found that a bit jarring when the younger of the two sisters was smiling at one young Duc, clearly smitten, and in the next half is married to someone completely different. I'm not sure if I missed something or my ebook was missing something or if we just jump in and continue on.

That aside, the young women in the story are well drawn out if not in depth but I enjoyed the characters and the descriptions of life in Bath, London and Paris of that time period. You can tell it's well researched for detail.
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4.0 out of 5 stars So happy to have found Melanie Clegg February 23, 2013
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See my review of Blood Sisters. I will not not be content until I have read everything this author has written.
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1.0 out of 5 stars shameless May 24, 2012
By Teacher
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This is the most shameless book I have ever read. It is practically a direct copy of Edith Wharton's "The Buchaneer's" even using direct quotes from that wonderful book. The author has copied the entire plot substituting France for England. If you have not read "the Buchaneer's" don't read this poor substitute, do yourself a favor and read the original. Shame on this author and shame on Amazon for offering it.
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More About the Author

Melanie Clegg is a pink haired art history graduate, casual historian, GIN taster, lapsed goth, failed Parisienne, Versailles obsessive, proud Ripperologist, Georgette Heyer fanatic and Victorian Prostitute re-enactor who lives in deepest darkest Somerset with her family but would rather be in either Whitechapel or Paris.

Meticulously researched and elegantly crafted,'The Secret Diary of a Princess' is her first novel and was born from a desire to tell the story of Marie Antoinette from an unusual and yet still fascinating angle, focusing on her early life at the Viennese court, the machinations behind her betrothal to the Dauphin Louis and then finally her initial impressions of her new home, Versailles. All told by Marie Antoinette herself as she grows from an enchanting, wilful child into a poised and beautiful young woman.

Melanie's second book, 'Blood Sisters' is a sweeping and dramatic saga set during the turbulent years of the French Revolution. As the horror, turmoil and excitement of the revolution unfolds around them, three very different sisters struggle to survive the bloodshed, find love and discover their true selves...

Her third novel is 'Before The Storm', an epic tale of love, ambition and betrayal set in eighteenth century London and Paris and based on The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton.

Melanie's fourth novel is 'Minette', the first in a two part series about the life of Charles II's youngest sister Henrietta-Anne Stuart, Duchesse d'Orléans.

She's currently working on a sequel to Minette and a novel about the Ripper murders in 1888.

You can find out more by visiting Melanie's popular art, history and writing blog at www.madameguillotine.org.uk.

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