Santa was very good to me this year. He left me a copy of Philippa Gregory's The White Queen. It's a first person account of the life of Elizabeth Woodville, one of England's most beautiful and most memorable queens.
Philippa Gregory is one of my favourite authors. I discovered her when I found a very small display of The Other Boleyn Girl in my local bookshop. This was long before the movie and the books were practically hidden in a corner. I was hooked on the first page and I devoured that book, as well as all of the other books in the Tudor Series. The Constant Princess was fabulous and made me look at Katharine of Aragon in a whole new light.
The White Queen is a fantastic book. Interesting characters, a gripping story, witchcraft, wars, and so much more. It's history with a good dose of fiction and I loved it. I highly recommend it to anyone, even if you're not very familiar with the War of the Roses (or The Cousins' War) this will have you hooked.
Get it. Read it. You'll see what I mean.
I'm thrilled to see that another Plantagenet book is planned for Autumn 2010: The Red Queen. This book will tell the story of Lady Margaret Beaufort, better known as My Lady, the King's Mother, as woman driven by relentless ambition to see her son, Henry Tudor, on the Plantagenet throne.
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ooh fabulous. I will have to find that.
What great taste in books you have :-)
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