Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780007190331
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 0007190336
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Publication Date: May 01, 2007
Publisher: Harper
Studio: Harper

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Rating: - Corset ripping Tudor drama......
I have only recently discovered Phillipa Gregory and have clocked up The Other Boleyn Girl, followed by The Queens Fool and then The Boleyn Inheritance in 2 weeks. Wow....how had I missed her? Amazing! Out of the 3 I have read, this book stands out the most, mainly due to the style of writing giving us the 'voices' of the 3 leading ladies. In TOBG Henry VIII is portayed as the charismatic handsome young King, but in this book I couldn't help but crinkle my nose up as I could almost 'smell' him due ... Read More

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Rating: - Phillipa Gregory does it again
In this brilliant novel we get to see three women, one evil and guilt stricken the other shy and gullible, and the third women young beautiful and vain.

After reading the other Boleyn girl thirst, I was able to understood the true cruelty of Jane Boleyn (lady rochford) in this book once again she only thinks of herself , she befriends both of henrys new queens with only her interest in mind. She is most obsessed with Anne Boleyn and her brother George Boleyn. She feels the guilt as ... Read More

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Rating: - ......divorced, beheaded......
This is the story of 3 women, 3 very different women and 1 very odd man.

Katherine is just fourteen when she lands a job that thrusts her into the spotlight of Henry, the man whose riches and homes she wants to share but at the moment this is only a dream, in the wilful childlike head of hers, a head which does not understand the consequences of any of her actions.

Anne is new, she has been contracted into an arranged marriage to Henry, has only seen a portrait of him and ... Read More

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Rating: - Rashomon for the Tudor Set
This novel is written from the viewpoint of three very different women - the naive yet quick-witted Anne of Cleves, the calculating Jane Boleyn and the greedy and childish Catherine Howard. They take turns by each chapter telling their view of events as they occur over a fairly brief period of time. Anne is set aside by the King in favor of Catherine, and it's the best thing that could have happened to her. She's the only one of the King's wives to survive a parting in a fairly benign (compared to the ... Read More

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Rating: - Another EXCELLENT Read
This is the second novel I've read by Philippa Gregory's; it's also the sequel to 'The Other Boleyn Girl' which I've recently read and reviewed.

The book is based around Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Jane Boleyn. It's follows how their leave change when each become part of the court of Henry VIII.

Poor Anne of Cleves, leave her country to marry a king old enough to be her father, she is not how royalty should be, so she becomes another victim of Henry VIII, but he allows ... Read More

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