The Map of Bones
10 October 2024
Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
Read by Hattie Morahan, with an author's note read by Kate Mosse.
'Mosse is a master storyteller' – Madeleine Miller, bestselling author of Circe
A sweeping story of love, adventure and adversity, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land.
Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows...
Details
10 October 2024
882 minutes
9781035042197
Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
I kept thinking about Hilary Mantel’s Reith lectures as I was reading The Joubert Family Chronicles. Mantel spoke about fact and fiction being blended in her work like olive oil and egg yolk in mayonnaise – you can’t return them to their original states. Here, Mosse gives us both the satisfying intricacy of historical fact and a fictional narrative that carries us along at a rollicking pace. The long, rich, tragic history of the Huguenots deserved a series of novels as brilliant and well researched as [The Joubert Family Chronicles], in which the past is felt deep in the reader’s bonesThe Observer
The fourth and final instalment in Mosse’s Joubert Family Chronicles . . . this is adventure-stuffed historical fiction in the grand traditionThe Telegraph
[The Map of Bones] demonstrates Mosse’s skill in constructing a multi-stranded narrative and filling it with memorable charactersThe Sunday Times
The fourth instalment in Mosse’s Joubert Family Chronicles is a fittingly terrific conclusion, with intrepid women, perilous journeys, a search for the truth, and a narrative spanning 17th to 19th century South Africa, it's a gripping, atmospheric noveli