The release date for the English version of 'The Secret History of the Pink Carnation' by
Lauren Willig is Dec 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Eloise Kelly, an intelligent American who always manages to wear her Jimmy Choo suede boots on the day it rains, decides that true romantic heroes are a thing of the past and leaves Harvard's Widener Library bound for England to complete her dissertation on the handsome pair of spies the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. The best historians have overlooked something that she unearths: a hidden past that starts with a letter dated 1803. Eloise has discovered the hidden past of the Pink Carnation, the most elusive spy in history and the one who prevented Napoleon's invasion of England on his own.
A very innovative and very ambitious debut, The Hidden History of the Pink Carnation begins with the narrative of a modern-day heroine but quickly develops into a book within a book. Eloise Kelly begins reading the hidden history in the hopes of learning the truth about the Pink Carnation. However, before she can do so, she comes upon a passionate relationship that almost upsets the balance of global events. How was England saved by the Pink Carnation? What happened to the Purple Gentian and the Scarlet Pimpernel? Will Eloise Kelly discover her own hero?