Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780091796723
ISBN: 0091796725
Label: Hutchinson
Manufacturer: Hutchinson
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: April 03, 2008
Publisher: Hutchinson
Studio: Hutchinson

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Rating: - Another Layer to the Story
Alison Weir shows yet again that she is a skilled novelist, this time taking on the complex and hazy story of Elizabeth Tudor's childhood and leading up to her accession.

Elizabeth, as depicted by Weir, is savvy, politically-minded and ambitious. She is also sometimes naive and all-too-human, especially in her dealings with Thomas Seymour. Seymour's behavior would now be properly referred to as molestation, and the sequences where he invades Elizabeth's space, and betrays his wife in ... Read More

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Rating: - Hmmm
I didn't really enjoy this book to the chagrin of all of my friends who loved it. I didn't particularly enjoy innocent traitor either. Miss Weir write factual history much better... whilst reading her novels I always feel she is still giving me a history lesson explaining silly things which ruins the flow of the story.

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Rating: - Not recommended.
I have read several of Alison Weir's non-fiction work, and also her first novel, Innocent Traitor. I thought Innocent Traitor was OK, and hoped that her second would be better.

Unfortunately, I feel it was worse. I found it quite difficult to read through to the end. The characters are quite wooden, and I didn't find the dialogue believable, particularly at the beginning. Elizabeth as a toddler certainly doesn't act or sound like a toddler! I know she is supposed to be intelligent, but ... Read More

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Rating: - Not as good as Innocent Traitor
Incredibly I picked this book out of my bookcase and couldn't remember whether I'd read it or not!!! I had to check the last few pages! Not good...

This book wasn't a patch on Innocent Traitor by the same author which was incredibly moving. Maybe it's just that there have been too many books written about the young Elizabeth, I don't know...

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Rating: - Wooden
I was so disappointed by The Lady Elizabeth. Alison Weir is a reputed historian who has written a number of books about the Tudors. However this fictionalized story of the life of Elizabeth 1 before she became Queen is wooden, clunky and tedious. It's so wordy that it gets bogged down, rather than carrying the reader along. Here's an example: "As more worrisome days passed, ominous with a dearth of news, Elizabeth's condition did not improve; however, the malaise in her body was as nothing to the ... Read More

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