Bitter GreensBitter Greens is the winner of the 2015 American Libraries Association prize for Historical Fiction. "A lovely stew of sex, fairytales and, well, sex really." The Age. An exquisite rendering of the story behind the Rapunzel fairy tale, Bitter Greens follows Charlotte Rose de la Force, who has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. She finds comfort in the company of an old nun,