Carole DeSanti is Vice President and Editor at Large at the Penguin Group, where she has championed numerous independent voices in women’s fiction, including Terry McMillan, Tracy Chevalier, Marisha Pessl, Deborah Harkness, and Penelope Lively. DeSanti clandestinely researched and wrote The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. for more than a decade. She has been profiled in Poets & Writers’ Magazine, published in the Women’s Review of Books, and awarded fellowships at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center and at Hedgebrook.

Books by Carole DeSanti

The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R.

by Carole DeSanti - Historical Fiction

Eugénie R., born in France’s foie gras country, follows the man she loves to Paris, but soon finds herself marooned, pregnant, and penniless. She gives birth to a daughter she is forced to abandon and spends the next ten years fighting to get her back.