Book Summary and Reviews of Charlatan by Kate Braithwaite

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"I enjoyed it enormously...you brought The Affair flooding back to me with added excellent detail...It really is a remarkable achievement." - Anne Somerset, author The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV

"This book kept me reading into the night...luxury and squalor, royal scandal and sorcery...how could it not?" - Fay Weldon, author The Life and Loves of a She-devil

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Kate Braithwaite

Kate Braithwaite grew up in Edinburgh but has lived in various parts of the UK, in Canada and the US. Winner of the University of Toronto Marina Nemat Award and Random House Student Writing Prize, she writes atmospheric historical fiction exploring dark secrets and unusual episodes from the past: the stories no one told you about in history class at school.

Her novel, Charlatan, was long-listed for the Mslexia New Novel Award and the Historical Novel Society Novel Award in 2015.

Kate and her family live in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

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