About the book: 1996 / The action of the love-historical novel "The Golden Tree" takes place in France at the very beginning of the nineteenth century. Gabrielle Roche, a wealthy heiress to a silk manufacturing dynasty, given by her father to marry a man much older than her, suffers in separation from her beloved. Insurmountable obstacles stand in the way of the main characters, who strive for each other with all their hearts. But loyalty, devotion and selfless love turn out to be stronger than circumstances. From the book of the talented writer Rosalind Laker, the reader will learn a lot of interesting things from the life of the French city of Lyon - the center of silk weaving production, which has ancient traditions - in one of the most turbulent eras in France, the era of Napoleon’s conquests.