‘A master storyteller…Gregory captures the intrigue and suspense of life at the Tudor court in vivid detail. She skilfully combines painstaking historical research with a gripping fictional narrative and her characters are so lifelike and engaging that they practically leap from the page’
- <I><B>Daily Express</B></I>,
‘Gregory brilliantly captures the torn loyalties, treacheries and tragedies that lie beneath the historical detail, to entertaining effect’
- <I><B>Good Housekeeping</B></I>,
‘Popular historical fiction at its finest, immaculately researched and superbly told’
- <I><B>The Times</B></I>,
‘Gregory creates a world in which all but the most determined women are tools in the hands of powerful men… past-paced, convincing, vivid and engrossing’
- <I><B>Daily Express</B></I>,
‘Philippa Gregory has another hit on her hands with this gripping page-turner. Her novel simplifies and humanises the complex politics of the period’
- <I><B>Sunday Times</B></I>,
‘Lady Margaret Beaufort – cold, clever, calculating – will stop at nothing to put her son Henry Tudor on the throne. Gregory is very good at describing the bitchiness of the women in this tale of dynastic rivalry’
- <I><B>Daily Telegraph</B></I>,
‘Rollicking, page-turning stuff’
- <I><B>Metro</B></I>,
‘Popular history at its best’
- <I><B>Daily Mail</B></I>,
‘Meticulously researched…for each novel she immerses herself in dozens of primary and secondary sources, before transforming them into vivid fiction’
- <I><B>Sunday Telegraph</B></I>,
‘Philippa Gregory is truly the mistress of the historical novel. It would be hard to make history more entertaining, lively or engaging’
- <I><B>Sunday Express</B></I>,
‘Her novels are filled with strong, determined women who take their fate into their own hands’
- <B><I>Financial Times</I></B>,
‘Rarely has history been so seductive’
- <B><I>Tatler</I></B>,
‘Gregory makes history come alive ... riveting’
- <I><B>Daily Express</B></I>,