by Joke J. Hermsen · Singel Uitgeverijen · tapa dura · ISBN 9789029565639
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«De liefde dus» is the historical novel by Joke J. Hermsen, published by Singel Uitgeverijen in hardback (336 pages, in Dutch).
Paris, 1785: the Dutch writer Belle van Zuylen, married to a tedious aristocrat and drawn to a much younger man, flees an impossible love for a turbulent city. There she consults the physician and alchemist Cagliostro. Diaries, letters and narrative fragments explore the tension between love and loyalty, passion and reason, freedom and morality.
The first edition of this novel was published on 31 January 2008; the original language is Dutch.
A work for readers of historical fiction with a philosophical backdrop and an eighteenth-century female protagonist, with themes of passion, freedom and morality.
