by Alexandra Ripley · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782714431028
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«La demoiselle du mississipi» is the romantic and historical novel by Alexandra Ripley, published by Belfond in paperback, in French.
Mary Macalistair's life changes at sixteen: her father dies and she discovers that her mother is not really her mother but a stepmother. With a meager inheritance consisting of a chest of memories and an address in New Orleans, the young woman leaves boarding school and embarks on a steamboat bound for the Mississippi to find the family she has left.
Work originally published in English as «New Orleans Legacy» in 1987; the French edition appeared in 1993.
For readers of historical romances set in the southern United States and of family plots.
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Alexandra Ripley was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), written as a sequel to Gone with the Wind. Her first novel was Who's the Lady in the President's Bed? (1972). Charleston (1981), her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books On Leaving Charleston (1984), The Time Returns (1985), and New Orleans Legacy (1987).
