The Map of Bones

'Brilliant . . . The past is felt deep in the reader's bones' - The Observer

A sweeping story of love, adventure and adversity, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land.

Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, arrives at the Cape of Good Hope in search of her infamous cousin - Louise Reydon-Joubert - who disappeared without a trace more than sixty years before. But not all is as it seems . . .

Franschhoek, Southern Africa, 1862. Nearly one hundred and eighty years later, another intrepid woman of the Joubert family - Isabelle Lepard - has journeyed to the Cape in search of her long-lost relations. But when she discovers that the crimes of the past are far from over, she faces a race to escape with her life . . .

Painstakingly researched and beautifully told, The Map of Bones is the fourth - and final - novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles, following the bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears and The Ghost Ship.

'This is adventure-stuffed historical fiction in the grand tradition' - The Telegraph

'A fittingly terrific conclusion [to The Joubert Family Chronicles]' - i newspaper

x The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 06-10-24