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I'm not a big fan of the whole 'history via a character's diary' thing. But I grabbed this book on a whim and was quickly absorbed. Sandra Gulland makes her Josephine so real and lovable--she's not the out-of-reach French Empress who happened to cheat on Napoleon. Josephine is actually a very real, warm person with insecurities and loneliness and the same troubles that any of us would have. Her marriage is rough, she has to move far away from home, she worries about having the money for her children's education. You laugh, cry, and worry right along with Rose/Josephine.
The historical details in this are wonderful as well. It's obvious that Sandra Gulland put a lot of research into her book, and it certainly pays off. I immediately ordered the second and third book, and was not disappointed in any of them.
I recommend ordering the entire trilogy immediately. Trust me when I say you'll rip through all three in a record pace. They're that good.


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The Many Lives Secret Sorrows of Josephine B Sandra Gulland Books Reviews

I had heard Senator Claire McCaskill say she had read this series a few times. I thought to myself "If this smart woman loves these books enough to read them multiple times than, you have to read them " This first book of the series is really good. The story pulled me in from the start. I had never in my life been interested in French history but after reading this I can't wait to start the second book.The young Josephine was a fascinating, smart , caring young woman and the times in which she lived were tumultuous . I am hooked.Extremely well written.
This book is written as a journal, and takes you from Rose's (Josephine) life as a teenager on Martinique, to her marriage to Napolean Bonaparte in France. I love to be drawn in to a story, and I wasn't sure that with the diary styling that would happen. I will say that I have ordered both of the other books in the series though; so by the end of the book I was hooked. It is a very dark period of France's history with the revolution, the imprisonments and beheadings.
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland is the first installment in a trilogy about Josephine Bonaparte. The first installment is fascinating, magnetic even, but so many things happen in the book that it feels long, longer than its four hundred-ish pages. The title couldn’t have been different; it pays homage not to a life but to the journey of a woman of modest beginnings who became extraordinary during the times and suffering she endured.

I acknowledge that since the book more or less started with a prophecy I was desperate to see it play out, so much so that when the book became serious—too much so describing the events during The Reign of Terror and Rose and her friends’ incarceration—I felt tempted to leave it aside. It was a history lesson let me tell you, and not the pretty kind. It was ugly and messy and plain terrifying. The Many Lives…feels slow at times, particularly in the parts I have talked about, but it’s so meticulously researched and narrated in first voice –through fictionalized journal entries and family letters-- that it lends a more human perspective to the historical events and figures Gulland describes. The result is historical fiction at its best.

I really liked that Gulland divided Josephine B.’s life in more or less three stages the early years until she meets Napoleon, the marriage to Napoleon and what happens after. I really liked Josephine, or rather, Rose. Is it wrong that I also liked the Napoleon we got to know here?

In summary, Sandra Gulland’s The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. is vast in scope and scale and meant to be savored as one of the best that historical fiction can offer.
Josephine Bonaparte was never called by that name until she married Napoleon Bonaparte, who gave her the name "Josephine." Her real name was Rose Tascher and later Beauharnais when she married Alexandre Beauharnais at age 17. She actually had three distinctively different lives, one growing up in Martinique and her first years in France as a new bride and very unequipped to deal with the high French society she found herself in. Then her second life deals with the French Revolution and what she and all the others in her circle had to do to survive it. How she and her children survived is almost miraculous. Her husband did not. Her third life began when she met Napoleon Bonaparte. It was definitely not love at first sight, but he was persistent. During her en tire life, she was surrounded by the effects of war, and went from poverty to Empress with many ups and more downs in-between. Since this book was written as a journal, it is a very personal journey. I loved the details about everyday life during this time, and I learned much more about the French Revolution than I had known before, although I have read many books on the subject of this tragic time. I have read all three books, and I think I may read all three again in the future.
I'm not a big fan of the whole 'history via a character's diary' thing. But I grabbed this book on a whim and was quickly absorbed. Sandra Gulland makes her Josephine so real and lovable--she's not the out-of-reach French Empress who happened to cheat on Napoleon. Josephine is actually a very real, warm person with insecurities and loneliness and the same troubles that any of us would have. Her marriage is rough, she has to move far away from home, she worries about having the money for her children's education. You laugh, cry, and worry right along with Rose/Josephine.
The historical details in this are wonderful as well. It's obvious that Sandra Gulland put a lot of research into her book, and it certainly pays off. I immediately ordered the second and third book, and was not disappointed in any of them.
I recommend ordering the entire trilogy immediately. Trust me when I say you'll rip through all three in a record pace. They're that good.