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Cargando... Queen's Gambit (The Tudor Trilogy) (edición 2014)por Elizabeth Fremantle (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A well-written, interesting re-imagining of the life & times of Catherine Parr, wife #6 to Henry VIII. I particularly enjoyed the character & storyline of the maid, Dot, who is used to give a different, though sympathetic, p.o.v. from Catherine's own. ( ) I won this ARC copy of this book last year, from a Goodreads contest. I have to say, it was a bit slow going for me in the beginning. After the first 80 pages it suddenly grew on me. Although I went into it already knowing the end, the writer managed to emotionally involve me in Katherine's story. This is a good peek at what it must have been like to be married to the elderly, irascible Henry VIII. I read Elizabeth Fremantle’s Girl in the Glass Tower two years ago and, ever since, I’ve meant to get round to her other Tudor novels. While Glass Tower focused on Arbella Stuart and Aemilia Lanyer, Queen’s Gambit is set considerably earlier, at the very end of Henry VIII’s reign. Obese, unpredictable and narcissistic, the king rules over a nervous court employed in the unpredictable task of catering to his favour. He has just executed his fifth wife, the giddy and silly Catherine Howard, and the great families of the realm are hopefully pressing their nubile daughters under his nose. But Henry has had enough of young women. His eyes have turned to maturity and good sense: the twice-widowed Katherine Lanyer, born Katherine Parr. Katherine is bright, gentle and wise: wise enough to want nothing less than to become queen. But, when the King calls, he must be answered; and soon Katherine finds herself at the heart of the Tudor web, ministering to a man whose precarious favour can disappear in a flash. Thoughtful and well-crafted, this novel brings the claustrophobia of the late Henrician court to life... For the full review, please see my blog: https://theidlewoman.net/2019/01/13/queens-gambit-elizabeth-fremantle/ sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A tale inspired by the life of Henry VIII's sixth wife follows her reluctant marriage to the egotistical and powerful king in spite of her love for Thomas Seymour, a situation that compels her to make careful choices in a treacherous court. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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