In the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, aristocrats both fear and hunger for magic. With nowhere else to turn, Camille begins to use the dark magic forbidden by her mother in order to transform herself into a baroness in the hopes of using magical sleight of hand to win the money she and her sister need.
The sisters are no longer burdened by his presence, but he’s absconded with the savings Camille had been hiding. When Alain suddenly disappears, it’s a mixed blessing. But the coins don’t hold their shape, and Alain is constantly losing what they earn, leaving them unable to pay the rent. The only sibling in her family to whom their mother was able to teach magic, Camille relies on her ability to painstakingly transform scraps of metal into money to buy food and medicine. Her younger sister, Sophie, was affected by smallpox as well and needs medicine, while her older brother Alain – once a protective and responsible sibling – has become a volatile drunk and a gambler who loses all of their money. When smallpox takes her parents, orphaning her and her two siblings, Camille Durbonne must find a way to keep her family afloat. Gita Trelease’s début young adult novel is an enchanting romp through the streets of Paris in 1789 in which magic literally winds through the city and through the story.
Take magic and romance, mix in the tumult of Paris on the eve of revolution, and you’ll get the historical fiction delight that is Enchantée.
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