The ball at Versailles by Danielle Steel.

The plot is wonderful, despite the relevance to current times and abundance of unrealistic opulence ! The characters of the young ladies just "coming out" in High Society are wonderfully rendered ! But the vocabulary, grammar and style of writing is so poor that at times, the reader feels totally neglected and even-abused to a measurable extent... It's hard to know whom to blame-the elderly writer or the advisory board on the auditing staff.