Publication: July 29, 2014
St. Martin's Press
Empress Elizabeth of Austria,
known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe.
Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her
hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the
older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling
formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she
can, on the back of a horse.
Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman in
England. He is also impoverished, with no hope of buying the horse
needed to win the Grand National—until he meets Charlotte Baird. A
clever, plainspoken heiress whose money gives her a choice
among suitors, Charlotte falls in love with Bay, the first man to
really notice her, for his vulnerability as well as his glamour. When
Sisi joins the legendary hunt organized by Earl Spencer in England, Bay
is asked to guide her on the treacherous course.
Their shared passion for riding leads to an infatuation that threatens
the growing bond between Bay and Charlotte, and all of their futures.
This brilliant new novel by Daisy Goodwin is a lush, irresistible story
of the public lives and private longings of grand historical figures.
DAISY
GOODWIN, a Harkness scholar who attended Columbia University’s film
school after earning a history degree at Cambridge University, is now a
leading television producer in the UK. She is
also a book reviewer for the London Times and was Chair of the judging panel of the 2010 Orange Prize for
Fiction. Daisy and her husband, an ABC TV executive, have two daughters
and live in London.
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