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Following on from the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears is a breathtaking novel of revenge, persecution and loss. 1572: for ten, violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. But now, a precarious peace is in the balance: a royal wedding has been negotiated between the Catholic Crown and the Huguenot king of Navarre. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last. Minou Joubert and her family receive an invitation to attend this historic wedding in Paris. What Minou does not know is that the Joubert family’s oldest enemy,Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, Minou’s family will be scattered to the four winds, and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without a trace.This is a story of one family’s fight to stay together against the devastating tides of history.