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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 The Invitation
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'Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly twenty years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. So when Emma receives a request from Caroline to meet her, she is intrigued. Caroline invites Emma to visit her in New York, on one condition: Emma must tutor her shy, young niece, Isadora, and help her prepare for her society debut.

'Caroline lives a life of unimaginable excess and opulence as one of New York's Gilded Age millionaires and Emma is soon immersed in a world of luxury beyond her wildest dreams - a far cry from her bohemian lifestyle as a harpist and writer with her lover, Claude, in Montmartre.

'Emma hopes for an emotional reunion with her only family, but instead she finds herself in the vice-like grip of her charismatic and manipulative sister, who revels in the machinations of the ultra rich. As Emma begins to question her sister's true motives, a disaster strikes, and New York society is stripped bare - beneath the glittering exterior lies a seething nest of deceit, betrayal, moral corruption ... and perhaps even murder.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2018 .
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      Extent: 416p.p.
      Reprinted: 2019
      Note/s:
      • Published 22 October 2018.

      ISBN: 9780732296452 (trade pbk), 0732296455 (trade pbk), 9780732296643 (pbk), 0732296641 (pbk), 9781743098332 (ebk), 1743098332 (ebk)
Alternative title: A meghívás
Language: Hungarian
    • Budapest,
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      Hungary,
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      Eastern Europe, Europe,
      :
      IPC Könyvek ,
      2019 .
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      Extent: 395p.p.
      ISBN: 9789636357177

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  • Dyslexic edition
  • Large print.
  • Braille.
  • Sound recording.
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