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Paris, 1878. Following the death of their father from overwork, the three van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without their father?s wages, and with what little their mother earns as a laundress disappearing down the absinthe bottle, eviction from their single boarding room seems imminent. With few options for work available for a girl, bookish fourteen-year-old Marie and her younger sister Charlotte are dispatched to the Paris Opera, where for a scant seven francs a week, the girls will be trained to enter its famous ballet. Their older sister, stubborn and insolent seventeen-year-old Antoinette, dismissed from the ballet, finds herself launched into the orbit of ?mile Zola and the influence of his notorious naturalist masterpiece L?Assommoir.
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New York Times bestseller and book club favourite CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN is the author of three novels.Her most recent, Daughter of Black Lake, is forthcoming in October. Her previous novel, The Painted Girls, was a New York Times bestseller, a #1 national bestseller in Canada, and was named a best book of the year by NPR, Good Housekeeping and . Her debut novel, The Day the Falls Stood Still, was a New York Times bestseller, a Barnes & Noble Recommends selection and a Canada Reads Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade. Her work has been translated into nine languages. Buchanan holds a BSc (Honours Biochemistry) and an MBA from Western University, and recently became a certified yoga instructor. She lives in Toronto.She'd be happy to skype your book club. For details see http://www.cathymariebuchanan.com/book-clubsVisit Cathy Marie's website (www.cathymariebuchanan.com) Connect with Cathy Marie on Facebook (www.facebook.com/cathymariebuchanan) or follow her on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/cathymbuchanan/)
