Marie-Antoinette is a subject of enduring fascination. Antonia Fraser's biography of the queen has sold over 100,000 copiesWinner of the Prix Femina in France'Enthralling historical novel-writing at its romantic best, filled with all the debauchery, betrayal, power and tragedy of Marie Antoinette's court in its last days' Santa Sebag Montefiore'Generates in the reader a real sense of being a fly on the wall, eavesdropping on the affairs of the great and not so good' Helen Falconer, Guardian'A racy, pacy story with a cast of rogues and villains and a wardrobe to make you swoon' You, Mail on Sunday'Marie-Antoinette s the subject of hundreds of biographies and novels, but perhaps none of them brings the reader quite so close to her as Farewell, My Queen.The author's imaginative fluency and her close acquantance with every detail are astonishing; her writing is delicate, aerial, precise' New Statesman.