Modern Fairies

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TADEUSZ BRADECKI PRIZE

‘A novel with oodles of charm’ The Times

‘Elegant, decadent, vulgar, clever, enchanting and dark’ Sarah Perry, author of Enlightenment

Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV''s fever dream. It''s a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you''ll find a dark undercurrent of ...