Series: Book 3 in the Tudors series
Rating: *****
Tags: General, Historical, Literary, Romance, Fiction, Historical fiction, Britain, Lang:en
Summary
THREE WOMEN WHO SHARE ONE FATE: THE
BOLEYN INHERITANCE ANNE OF CLEVES She runs from her tiny
country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a
throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII,
her new husband, instantly dislikes her. Without friends,
family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken
around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled
by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable
and vengeful king. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and
false witnesses. KATHERINE HOWARD She catches the king's eye
within moments of arriving at court, setting in motion the
dreadful machine of politics, intrigue, and treason that she
does not understand. She only knows that she is beautiful, that
men desire her, that she is young and in love -- but not with
the diseased old man who made her queen, beds her night after
night, and killed her cousin Anne. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the
threat of the axe. JANE ROCHFORD She is the Boleyn girl whose
testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths.
She is the trusted friend of two threatened queens, the
perfectly loyal spy for her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, and a
canny survivor in the murderous court of a most dangerous king.
Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy,
and twisted lust. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a
title, in exchange for her soul. The Boleyn Inheritance is a
novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the
gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth,
admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror.
Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought a vanished world to
life -- the whisper of a silk skirt on a stone stair, the
yellow glow of candlelight illuminating a hastily written note,
the murmurs of the crowd gathering on Tower Green below the
newly built scaffold. In The Boleyn Inheritance Gregory is at
her intelligent and page-turning best.