Linda Donn, The Little Balloonist
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The Little Balloonist Linda Donn Plume
The Little Balloonist
Linda Donn
Plume, December 2006, $13.00
ISBN: 0452287731
Wealthy inventor and dare devil Jean-Pierre Blanchard marries the much younger country bumpkin because he owes her family for saving his life when his latest contraption failed. Jean-Pierre especially enjoys soaring over the city in hot air balloons. To his shock, clumsy Sophie takes to the air like a bird and is soon flying solo.
After she becomes a widow, France recognizes that a female aviator is flying. Word quickly reaches Emperor Napoleon who is sick of his wife Josephine's extramarital affairs, and her waste on expensive clothing that makes her look like a peacock. Instead, he yearns for Sophie, and he begins courting her at the same time her childhood friend Andre Giroux the psychic healer comes wooing her too.
THE LITTLE BALLOONIST is a terrific biographical fiction starring a highly admired female balloonist who could count Napoleon as one of her fans. The storyline provides a deep look at the pioneer balloonists who bravely flew in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; Jean Pierre and Sophie were real celebrities soaring above the masses. Readers will enjoy this delightful historical that uses a fascinating romantic triangle, starring the emperor, the psychic and the balloonist to bring a lesser known part of Napoleonic France vividly soaring to readers.
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