Présentation de l'éditeur
Our Lady of the Potatoes is a brilliant re-examination of eighteenth-century France, seen through the eyes of Marie-Louise Murphy, an Irish adventuress who gets caught up in all the dramas of the age of enlightenment and revolution, becoming the mistress of Louis XV and narrowly escaping death at the hands of the revolutionaries in 1789.Part objet trouv , part recycled history, part grotesque variation on a fairy-tale, Our Lady of the Potatoes is a highly entertaining and vivid novel, a tour de force of historical story-telling, which more than confirms this talented writer's great promise.
Biographie de l'auteur
Duncan Sprott was born in 1952. He is the author of 1784, The Clopton Hercules and Our Lady of the Potatoes. He lives in Ireland.
