Beyond the ocean

The destinies of two cousins, Angelique and Elizabeth, are turned upside down by arranged marriages. While Angie leaves the Tarn to follow an unknown husband to the Americas, Elisabeth prepares for a forced union in Lyon. Separated by the ocean, they maintain their indefectible bond through letters mixing confidences, doubts and hopes. While family secrets As deep-seated family secrets resurface, the two young women must navigate a rapidly changing world, where old hierarchies falter. In the new world, Angélique discovers that her future is very different from what she imagined. As for Elisabeth, she must face alone the end of a carefree era. Each in their own way, they question the future imposed on them: should they submit or dare to defy it?The first volume of a great historical fresco, Beyond the Ocean is an intense epistolary novel in which exile, love and emancipation collide with the political and social realities of the time.Graduates in Human and Social Sciences and natives of south-eastern France, Lydia and Béatrice are two friends with a passion for history, particularly that of the early 19th century in France and the United States. They were keen to highlight the lives of those French provincials of the time, who either stayed at home or moved across the Atlantic in the hope of a better life.