Book description
An unforgettable story about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles...
San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma,…
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1 author picked The Phoenix Crown as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The best of historical fiction is like time travel: transporting.
I enjoy reading The Phoenix Crown as it swept me away to the San Francisco of the early 1900’s. I was drawn into the story of three women—an opera singer, a Chinese laundress, and an elderly botanist—whose paths cross, and who unite in a quest that has them battling evil forces while the city burns in the wake of the epic earthquake of 1906.
I’m a sucker for female-centric stories that illustrate the saying “Women are like tea bags. You don’t know their strength until they’re in hot water.” The…
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