The Young Travelling Harlot

  • The prequel to the Wanderhuren series: This is how the helpless merchant's daughter Marie becomes the courageous woman who turns her fortunes around.
  • The eight-volume Wanderhuren series is the most successful historical novel series in Germany
  • More than 20 million novels sold by the SPIEGEL bestselling author
  • translated into more than 15 languages

The long-awaited prequel: Finally, the mystery of Marie's transformation is revealed!

Constance in 1410: After the bitter betrayal by her noble fiancé, the beautiful merchant's daughter Marie is disgraced and chased out of the city, badly injured. Marie wants only to die, to find redemption in death. Instead, she is found by the wandering whore Hiltrud and nursed back to health. Three years later, the helpless girl has become a courageous and self-confident woman who manages to turn her fate around on her own and take revenge on her tormentors. What exactly happened during those three years has been a well-kept secret until now ... How Marie goes through hell and her will to live ignites an inner fire in the process is told in Iny Lorentz's stirring and colourful 9th instalment of the SPIEGEL bestseller series.

Background information: With this book, Iny Lorentz fills the narrative gap from the first "Wanderhuren" volume for the first time.

For all those who want to know exactly:  Between the end of the second part of "Die Wanderhure", p. 172 and the beginning of the third part, three years are missing in which Marie made the transformation. The story continues on page 175 with a time jump of three years.

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  • Publisher: Knaur HC
  • Release: 01.09.2023
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-22809-8
  • 512 Pages
  • Series: Die Wanderhuren-Reihe
  • Author: Iny Lorentz
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Iny Lorentz

Two authors from Munich are behind the pseudonym Iny Lorentz, whose first historical novel ‘Die Kastratin’ delighted readers straightaway. With ‘Die Wanderhure’ they had their breakthrough; the novel attained more than a million readers. Since then, bestseller has followed bestseller. Iny Lorentz’s novels have been sold in numerous countries. The film adaptations of their ‘Wanderhure’- novels and more recently the ‘Pilgerin’ have delighted millions of television viewers. In the spring of 2014, Iny Lorentz was awarded the ‘Ehrenhomerpreis’ for their special merits in the sector historical novel. The stage version of the ‘Wanderhure’ enthralled thousands of visitors at the open-air festival in Bad Hersfeld in the summer of 2014. Visit the authors’ hompage: www.inys-und-elmars-romane.de

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