Napoleon's Rosebud

Humphry Knipe

ISBN 10: 1541220390 / ISBN 13: 9781541220393

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G1541220390I4N00

Synopsis:

You are the high spirited 19-year-old daughter of a penniless widow, born and brought up on an isolated, windswept South Atlantic island, a girl with virtually no prospects, when out of the blue the most famous man on earth falls into your lap.Still smarting from his defeat at Waterloo, still the hero of Liberals everywhere, Napoleon has been exiled to tiny Saint Helena because it is the remotest and most easily defended island in the British Empire. But far from being broken by defeat, Napoleon’s fertile imagination seethes with escape schemes. He meets you on his first evening on the island and instantly knows he has found what he is looking for: his path to freedom.“Fiendishly clever plots and counterplots …This is a magnificent and sometimes blissfully raunchy book.” − David Stansfield“Engaging and ripe with characters that amuse, delight, disgust and touch the reader’s heart.” – Katheryn Rishoff

About the Author: This clandestine affair between a fallen emperor and a beautiful but naive island girl has a very personal backstory, writes the author. When he was very young back home in South Africa his grandfather, who was born on remote St Helena island where Napoleon died in exile after his defeat at Waterloo, often spoke about his family’s acquaintance with the great man. A big print of Napoleon hung on his living room wall. When the author researched this claim many years later he discovered why his grandfather, a Victorian gentleman, hadn’t gone into detail. Charlotte Knipe, the author’s great-great- grandaunt, said to be the most beautiful girl on St Helena at the time, is on record as having been a frequent guest of the emperor and rumored to have been his lover. Napoleon called her Rosebud. Humphry Knipe’s novel The Nero Prediction won the IPPY award for “Best Historical Fiction.” He lives in Malibu, California with his wife glamour photographer Suze Randall.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Napoleon's Rosebud
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket