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9 Sandra Gulland
The best writers of historical fiction are obsessive about their subject, meticulous about period detail, and are able
to blur the line between fiction and truth by seamlessly integrating the fiction into the historical narrative. Sandra
Gulland, a widely travelled California native who came to Canada in 1970, ticks all those boxes. She has a huge following and book sales
in the millions. Although she lives half the year in northern Ontario and half in Mexico, she keeps one foot firmly planted in 18th century France. Her bestselling
trilogy on the life of Josephine Bonaparte required over ten years of complete immersion in the period, the place and the person. The trilogy consists of
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.; Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe; and The Last Great Dance on Earth.
Gulland travels further back in French history for her latest book, Mistress of the Sun, the story of Louise de la Vallière, consort of
France’s Sun King, Louis XIV.
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