Finding Emilie

Woman is born free, and everywhere she is in corsets. . . . Lili du Chtelet yearns to know more about her mother, the brilliant French mathematician Emilie. But the shrouded details of Emilies unconventional lifeand her sudden deathare elusive. Caught between the confines of a convent upbringing and the intrigues of the Versailles court, Lili blossoms under the care of a Parisian salonnire as she absorbs the excitement of the Enlightenment, even as the scandalous shadow of her mothers past haunts her and puts her on her own path of self-discovery. Laurel Coronas breathtaking new novel, set on the eve of the French Revolution, vividly illuminates the tensions of the times, and the dangerous dance between the need to conform and the desire to chart ones own destiny and journey of the heart.