A Novel by Josephine Bonaparte

Napoleon puts himself up in sumptuous palazzo serballoni. He takes to milan high life like cabiar to a cracker, entertaining its writers and intellectuals. The truth is that josephine is preoccupied. Less than two months on from their wedding, and she is already having an affair. Her love struck hobby has hot footed it 300 miles back from the front to be with her. She is forced to endure no more than forty eight hours in her husband's company. When she hears that he must once again depart, orders have come from paris.Napoleon must press on. His military command is beginning to mark him out as someone with unique gifts