Search - Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette

If you like fiction based on historical fact you'll appreciate this book by Sena Naslund. Naslund blends letters from Marie and her mother in Austria against the background of the Court of Versailles. If you've been lucky enough to travel to Paris and seen Versailles, you can really see the events as they occur. If you haven't, rent the movie Marie Antoinette which helps you "see" the court as protocol ruled it during the 18th century. It's a wonderful read.

History has portrayed Marie Antoinette as an extravagant, and sometimes cold monarch - Naslund gets the reader past that, to see the young Austrian girl sent to a foreign land to marry the man who would be king. She brings a reality and presence to the world of Henry XVI and Marie Antoinette that few others have managed to accomplish. This is a page turner, and well worth the read!

Loved this book, I know its not historically correct but never the less I loved it, Could imagine how they were dressed and what life might have been like. Would recommend to any one who likes historical novels

This book depicts Marie Antoinette as I have imagined her- complex yet childish, ostentatious in taste yet with no context for comparison, educated and very passionate, self-centered, but with a real desire to rule well.

Versailles is essentially a character in this story- evoked in an almost dreamlike sense, seemingly endless, gilded and gleaming.

Though the narration is almost claustrophobically close to Antoinette's thoughts; other characters are well-developed, enough to seem real and understandable, and Marie herself is charming enough that the closeness is more friendly than uncomfortable.

Though the events and end of the story are unchangeable, this is a Marie Antoinette you can sympathize with and cheer for throughout- flawed, but genuine.

This was an awesome book - very well written as coming from Marie Antoinette's view.

Great book.