The Map of Bones Audiobook Libro.fm

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Read by Hattie Morahan with an authors note read by Kate Mosse

Mosse is a master storyteller Madeleine Miller bestselling author of Circe

A sweeping story of love adventure and adversity The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land

Olifantshoek Southern Africa 1688 When the violent Cape wind blows from the southeast they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through the deserted valley Suzanne Joubert a Huguenot refugee from wartorn France arrives in search of her cousin the notorious shecaptain and pirate commander Louise ReydonJoubert who landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years before then disappeared without a trace

Franschhoek Southern Africa 1862 Nearly one hundred and eighty years after Suzannes perilous journey another intrepid and courageous woman of the Joubert family Isabelle Lepard has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek in search of her longlost relations Intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books she quickly discovers that the crimes and tragedies still shadow the present And now Isabelle faces a race against time if she is to discover the truth and escape with her life

Painstakingly researched and beautifully told The Map of Bones is the fourth and final novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles following the bestselling The Burning Chambers The City of Tears and The Ghost Ship

Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles

Gripping complex and intensely atmospheric The Mail on Sunday on The Burning Chambers

A historical epic The Observer on The City of Tears

Meticulously researched and stunningly written Santa Montefiore bestselling author of Wait for Me on The Ghost Ship

The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse was a 1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 090723