The King's Grey Mare by Rosemary Hawley Jarman

The King's Grey Mare by Rosemary Hawley Jarman

Known as the King's Grey Mare, Elizabeth Woodville, queen of Edward IV, was beautiful beyond belief, with unique silver-grey hair. She had once known joy of a marriage based on love, only to see it snatched away on the battlefield. Hardened and changed by grief, Elizabeth became the tool of her evil ambitious mother, the witch, Jaquetta of Bedford, who was determined that her daughter should sit on the throne of England. By trickery, deception and witchcraft, Jaquetta's wish was fulfilled. But even a witch could not have known the tragedy which lay in store for the King's Grey Mare.

"'Lust, butchery and witchcraft.. richly readable' THE OBSERVER, 'This book has mastered the bewildering shifts of power and concentration of allegiance of the period and made them an old-fashioned, close-packed good read... Few authors can capture the fifteenth-century so vividly' THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, 'A stirring story, told with great verve and a splendid feeling for history' WOMAN'S JOURNAL; 'With much dedication and with even more imagination Rosemary Hawley Jarman's version of the Wars of the Roses should intrigue all lovers of romantic historical fiction' THE EVENING STANDARD, 'A complicated tale, but an absorbing one, told with fine feeling for the beauty and the brutality, the pageantry and theunderlying squalor of fifteenth-century England' THE SCOTSMAN."

Best selling author both in the UK and the North America, Rosemary Hawley Jarman was born in Worcester. She lived most of her time in Worcestershire at Callow End, between Worcester and Upton on Severn. She began to write for pleasure, and followed a very real and valid obsession with the character of King Richard III. With no thought of publication she completed a novel showing the King in his true colours, away from Tudor and Shakespearian propaganda. The book was taken up almost accidentally by an agent, and within six weeks a contract for publication and four other novels was signed with HarperCollins. The first novel We Speak No Treason was awarded The Silver Quill, a prestigious Author's Club Award, and sold out its first print of 30,000 copies within seven days. We Speak No Treason was followed by The King's Grey Mare, Crown in Candlelight and The Courts of Illusion.

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ISBN 13	9780752445632
ISBN 10	0752445634
Title	The King's Grey Mare
Author	Rosemary Hawley Jarman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The History Press Ltd
Year published	2008-02-29
Number of pages	352
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