Strong, subversive heroine Juliana Paget is forced to flee from her Italian home during the French Revolution in the first of Joan Aiken's romantic regency adventures, The Smile of a Stranger.
Escaping from the horrors of revolutionary France, seventeen year old Juliana embarks on a wild and dangerous journey, crossing the channel in a hot air balloon to the supposed safety of English soil. But what awaits her is far from harmless: an evil aunt, a dangerous prospective husband, and a threatening presence from her past . . .
Aiken's plucky but disarmingly innocent heroine must learn to tell truth from fiction in this gripping romantic adventure.
- ISBN10 0575024577
- ISBN13 9780575024571
- Publish Date 8 June 1978
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Not Avail
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English