A Daughters Love by John Guy
This book will break open a secret. It is a gripping tale of love, loyalty and domestic happiness that came to be overwhelmed by the forces of ambition, deceit and treachery, from the award-winning author of My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots.'Brilliantly observed and told … [Guy's] absorbing, thoroughly researched book does justice to two exemplary women – and reminds us that history is full of ironies' Claire Tomalin, New York Times
'An arresting reassessment…An outstanding talent for stop-the-reader-dead-in-their-tracks gripping storytellingGuy's convincing page-turner of a double life has restored my faith in biography as a genre' Lisa Jardine, Sunday Times
'Gripping…Guy's scholarship is irreproachable' Independent on Sunday
'John Guy has done more towards the scholarly reappraisal of More's greatness than most other English Historians of the last 50 years' Independent
'Scrupulously researched' Economist
'A stirring story' Daily Mail
'An admirable account…A minor masterpiece' Spectator
John Guy is the author of numerous histories, including ‘Tudor England’, which has sold more than a quarter of a million copies, and ‘My Heart is My Own’, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. He is a Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge and also lectures in the Faculty of History. He became an Honorary Research Professor of the University of St Andrews in 2003.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007192328 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007192320 |
| Titel | A Daughters Love |
| Autor | John Guy |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2009-04-30 |
| Seitenanzahl | 400 |
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