Viviane de Faitaud has grown up alone at her family’s château for her father the Marquis de Valaine lives at the court of Louis XVI in Versailles. After a hailstorm destroys the château’s orchards gardens and fields an ambitious young Welshman David Stronach accepts the commission to plan new gardens in the hope of making his name as a landscape designer. However the love that blossoms between them is doomed: Viviane is betrothed to a duke and David is forced to leave the property. In the aftermath Viviane enters an unhappy marriage and moves to Versailles while David embarks upon a mission to China to procure the secrets of tea-growing. There he is inspired by the story of the Blue Rose a fable of impossible love. Can he and Viviane - a world apart - ever hope to rekindle what they had together?
Karen Cass studied French and Spanish at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge before training at LAMDA and has since worked extensively in theatre, TV, film and radio. As an audiobook narrator she has... more
