After reading a number of other books about the Woodville family, Richard III, and the events of this time period, I was quite pleasantly surprised by this book! Susan Higginbotham presented this story in a way that showed some other sides to the people and the events. She told the story from the...
Touted as the next Jean Plaidy, this author doesn't even come close! Pedantic, with dumb downed prose, she makes history look like a day in the 21st century. Historical details completely lacking, Susan Higginbotham uses this to create a story based in her imagination, which is absolutely unins...
An interesting history of Margaret of Anjou and the French and British royalty of the 1400s as seen mostly from her point of view among others. In the back the author explains some liberties she took in the writing of the story which was interesting. She also discussed where history contradicts i...
I was so eager to dig in and begin this book, especially with the endorsements of friends and a bit of help from the author herself (helping me to choose which book of hers to start with). I was beyond frustrated that it took me two months to read. Let me explain, it wasn't the fault of the book...
It was a time for each of us to tell the others our news, if we had any. With so many children married, I deeply hoped one or more of the couples would soon have news of a coming child. Having reached the end of my own child-bearing years, it appeared, I looked forward to spoiling a line of Dudle...
Sometimes she still joined me on the hunt, on those days when she wasn’t dictating letters begging someone or the other to help us regain my father’s throne or thinking of whom she could enlist in our cause next. Today, however, she stopped me before I even opened my mouth...
Hugh had told her once about the battle of Sluys, one in which so many men had drowned. More than once, he’d said, he had thought he would not come out of it alive. What if the sea crossing turned into another Sluys, one where the battle went to the French this time? What if Hugh met his death in...