"A gothic masterpiece."-- Better Read Than Dead Set in seventeenth-century France--a country in the thrall of dark magic, its social fabric weakened by years of plague--Chris Womersley\'s City of Crows is a richly imagined and engrossing tour de force.
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Inspired by real-life events, it tells the story of Charlotte Picot, a young woman from the country forced to venture to the fearsome City of Paris in search of her only-remaining son, Nicolas. "A gothic masterpiece."-- Better Read Than Dead Set in seventeenth-century France--a country in the thrall of dark magic, its social fabric weakened by years of plague--Chris Womersley\'s City of Crows is a richly imagined and engrossing tour de force
