Our children grown, my husband and I now live half the year in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and half in Ontario.įor more information, please see my website at. THE GAME OF HOPE, a young adult novel about Hortense, Josephine Bonaparte's daughter (and Napoleon's stepdaughter), will soon be published in Canada and the US. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. As she did for Napoleons wife (The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.), Gulland skillfully blends fact and fiction to imagine the life of. THE SHADOW QUEEN, a 'sister' novel to MISTRESS OF THE SUN, was published in the spring of 2013 and is also published internationally. Mistress of the Sun illuminates both the power of true and perfect love and the rash actions we take to capture and tame it. In it, author Sandra Gulland pulls off a difficult balancing act: The novel is both impeccably researched and gorgeously written. (The trilogy is now published in 15 countries and in 13 languages.) MISTRESS OF THE SUN, my 4th novel, was published in 2008 (and is now in 8 languages). Set in seventeenth century France, Mistress of the Sun is an opulent treasure of a historical novel. Ten years later, the first of the novels in the JOSEPHINE B. Juggling children, a dog, three cats, pigs, chickens and a succession of horses, I worked as a freelance editor for five years before committing to writing full-time in 1985. This act shadows Louise throughout her life as she enters the court of the Sun King, where she capturesand then tragically losesthe King’s heart. Settling in Toronto, I worked as a book editor for a decade before moving with my husband and two children to a log house in northern Ontario. Mistress of the Sun resurrects a fascinating female figure from the shadows of history and illuminates both the power of true and perfect love and the rash actions we take to capture and tame it. I was born in Miami, Florida, in 1944, and lived in Rio de Janeiro, Berkeley, San Francisco and Chicago before immigrating to Canada in 1970 to teach in an Inuit village in northern Labrador for one year.

Mistress of the sun by sandra gulland