Christine Trent
By the King’s Design
Annabelle Stirling (Belle) and her flighty, journal-writing brother Wesley own a draper’s shop in Yorkshire until a Luddite mob, unhappy…
A Royal Likeness
Marguerite Ashby, daughter of a Frenchwoman, runs a doll shop in 1803 London. Married to her childhood sweetheart, she happily…
The Queen’s Dollmaker
Trent marries the story of a talented dollmaker to the fate of the French queen, Marie Antoinette, who will eventually…
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