The Burning Chambers

Kate Mosse

This is the first book in a new series of historical novels by best-selling author Kate Mosse. Set in France in 1562, readers are cast back to the days of the Huguenot “wars of religion”, where 19-year-old Minou Joubert finds her world turned upside down after receiving a mysterious letter, saying only: “She knows that you live”. Without realising she is in grave danger from a long-held family secret, Minou falls in love with a Huguenot convert, called Piet, and becomes embroiled in a terrifying battle between the Protestants and Catholics in Toulouse. As with her previous novels, The Languedoc Trilogy, Mosse delivers rich historical facts about the atrocities and persecution of the time that entertains and educates in equal measure. 7/10