Marie Antoinette - Softcover

Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here, adorned by often fascinating, at times esoteric detail (Hazel Mills GUARDIAN)

A hugely well-researched work . . . MARIE ANTOINETTE is a heroic and tragic exercise in identification (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

This beautifully paced, impeccably written biography is destined to generate the same success as Antonia Fraser's previous work. Don't miss it (Andrea Stuart INDEPENDENT)

A sparkling new biography . . . Antonia Fraser writes beautifully, with impressively shrewd judgement . . . This is a fine book and a very good read (Desmond Seward DAILY MAIL)

In MARIE ANTOINETTE, Fraser's superb gifts of narrative, characterisation and eye for salient detail are deployed to greater effect than ever before (Mark Bostridge INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

Fraser sets out to rescue Marie Antoinette from the shadow of the guillotine, and she does this with resounding success (Ruth Scurr THE TIMES)

Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate (Miranda Seymour SUNDAY TIMES)

[Fraser] has written a fine biography . . . A fine and rewarding book (Douglas Johnson SPECTATOR)

An authoritative, sympathetic and beautifully written life of the much maligned queen (Charles Osborne SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

A superbly researched book which will clearly become the definitive work on the ill-fated queen (Margot Lawrence CATHOLIC HERALD)