Into the world / Stephanie Parkyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parkyn, Stephanie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Male impersonators--Fiction.

Male impersonators.

Sailors--France--Fiction.

Sailors.

Girardin, Marie-Louise, 1754-1794--Fiction.

Girardin, Marie-Louise.

History.

France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793--Fiction.

France.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

History.

New Zealand fiction -- 21st century.

Physical Description:

x, 437 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2017.

Summary:

In the midst of the French Revolution, in 1791, unwed mother Marie-Louise Girardin takes one last look at her baby son before thrusting him into the arms of her friend, the revolutionary Olympe de Gouges. She must escape, and only the most daring plan will bring her both the anonymity she needs and the independence to return one day for her son. Marie-Louise disguises herself as a man and joins a voyage of exploration employed as a steward on the Recherche, one of two ships commissioned to journey to the Great Southern Ocean to find the missing explorer La Perouse. Protecting her identity throughout, Marie-Louise forms friendships among the eccentric naturalists. But tensions rise between the royalist officers and the revolutionaries, and Marie-Louise's position becomes precarious when she discovers someone on board knows the secrets of her past. When the expedition docks in Java, chaos erupts as they learn of King Louis XVI's execution and are imprisoned by the Dutch. Marie-Louise seems certain to be unmasked. Will she ever return to France and be reunited with her child?

Notes:

"Abandoned by her lover and fleeing the wrath of her family, Marie-Louise must make a desperate choice. Find a man or become one."--Cover.

ISBN:

9781760296513

1760296511

OCLC:

1002824997

Publisher Number:

99978797582