The King’s Command: For God or Country by Rosemary Hayes

 

The King’s Command: For God or Country
By Rosemary Hayes

Publication Date: July 3rd, 2023

Publisher: Sharpe Books

Page Length: 415 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction

16 year old Lidie Brunier has everything; looks, wealth, health and a charming suitor but there are dark clouds on the horizon. Lidie  and her family are committed Huguenots and Louis XIV has sworn to stamp out this ‘false religion’ and make France a wholly Catholic country. Gradually Lidie’s comfortable life starts to disintegrate as Huguenots are stripped of all rights and the King sends his brutal soldiers into their homes to force them to become Catholics. Others around her break under pressure but Lidie and her family refuse to convert. With spies everywhere and the ever present threat of violence, they struggle on. Then a shocking betrayal forces Lidie’s hand and her only option is to try and flee the country. A decision that brings unimaginable hardship, terror and tragedy and changes her life for ever.

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Rosemary Hayes

Rosemary Hayes was brought up and educated in the UK but has also lived in France, America and Australia. She has a background in publishing, with Cambridge University Press and later running her own company, Anglia Young Books.

Rosemary has written over fifty books for children many of which have won or been shortlisted for awards and several translated into different languages.

She now writes historical fiction for adults and her first book in the genre, 'The King's Command', is a fast moving story of love, tragedy and flight at the time of Louis XIV's persecution of the Huguenots. The second, 'Traitor's Game' (the first book in the SOLDIER SPY trilogy) follows the exploits of Will Fraser, disgraced soldier, lover and reluctant spy during the Napoleonic Wars. 

For many years Rosemary was a reader for a well known Author’s Advisory Service; she now runs creative writing courses for adults and workshops for both adults and children.

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