Blood Sisters

About the Book

You´ll want to read a sample of my novel even more if you saw Sofia Coppola´s film, with Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette.

History’s bimbo. Poster girl for wretched excess. Beheaded at 38, to wild cheering. Brainless. Heartless. Clueless. Was she?

Louisa, Princess of Lamballe. Born in Italy. Betrayed into widowhood. Best friend and, some say, lover of Marie Antoinette. Were they? The answers are in this first novel from a former theater critic, copywriter and ghostwriting entrepreneur.

Little is known of Louisa, and myth has hidden the real Marie Antoinette. Both women come clear in Blood Sisters, a juicy, authentically detailed, fact-based imagining of the bond between the remarkable woman who was the last French Queen and the woman who was her friend to the end.

About the Author

Jeanne Carbonara Sutton was born in Queens, New York. Raised there and in the Bronx until school age, she moved with her family to Saint Louis, Missouri, then to Wilmington, Delaware, where she graduated from high school. She spent the 25 years of her married life in southern New Jersey before relocating to Florida in 1995. A theater major in college, Jeanne taught speech and drama in the sixties. She went on to earn a living as a freelance writer, including stints as a theater critic, copywriter, and ghostwriting entrepreneur, from the late seventies to the early nineties, when she became a bookseller for a major international bookstore chain. Her writing credentials include a National Magazine Award nomination for a Philadelphia Magazine article published in 1982. Jeanne is the the mother of two grown daughters; she lives with her life-mate and three cats in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.