"The Stolen girl" and "the French sultana" both explore the legend of Naksidil the French woman in the Turkish imperial harem
The first novel is a story about a French woman who became the favourite of two sultans and the mother of a third. The history of that era is known and described in book 2. This however is the romanticised prequel to real history and it is a delight to read if you like historical romance novels. The first wife however would in real life have ended up on the bottom of the Bosporus.
More then 20 years ago I read another novel about this legend - serialised in a magazine - and that was a lot better.
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