The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels #1)
Philippa Gregory
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· 72 ratings · 513 pages · Published: 18 Oct 2011
The Woodvilles return to the Lancaster court, where Jacquetta becomes close friends with young King Henry VI’s new queen. But she can sense a growing threat from the people of England, and the danger of royal rivals. The king slides into a mysterious sleep; Margaret, his queen, turns to untrustworthy favourites for help; and Richard, Duke of York, threatens to overturn the whole kingdom for his rival dynasty, the House of York.
Jacquetta fights for her king, her queen and her daughter Elizabeth Woodville, for whom she senses an extraordinary future.
‘Meticulously researched and deeply entertaining, this story of betrayal and divided loyalties is Gregory on top form’
‘Gregory has popularised Tudor history perhaps more than any other living fiction writer…all of her books feature strong, complex women, doing their best to improve their lives in worlds dominated by men’
‘Engrossing’
‘Popular historical fiction at its finest, immaculately researched and superbly told’
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