Book description
Better than Philippa Gregory - The Bookseller Anne O Brien has joined
the exclusive club of excellent historical novelists. - Sunday Express I
was a penniless, landless petitioner, my Neville blood a curse, my
future dependent on the charity of those who despised me & Anne
Neville is the heiress and daughter of the greatest powerbroker in the
land, Warwick the Kingmaker. Trapped in a deadly tangle of political
intrigue, she is a pawn in an uncertain game, used by the houses of
Neville, York and Lancaster alike. In England s glittering, treacherous
court, not all wish to see the Nevilles raised high. The Earl of Warwick
s ambition and pride lead him into an attempt to depose the Yorkist
King; his treason forces his family into exile. Humiliated and powerless
in a foreign land, Anne must find the courage and the wit to survive in
such a dangerous man s world. Compulsively readable, Anne O Brien
vividly evokes the story of Richard III s queen with a passion and
vibrancy reminiscent of Phillipa Gregory and Alison Weir. Better than
Philippa Gregory - The Bookseller Anne O Brien has joined the exclusive
club of excellent historical novelists. - Sunday Express I was a
penniless, landless petitioner, my Neville blood a curse, my future
dependent on the charity of those who despised me & Anne Neville is
the heiress and daughter of the greatest powerbroker in the land,
Warwick the Kingmaker. Trapped in a deadly tangle of political intrigue,
she is a pawn in an uncertain game, used by the houses of Neville, York
and Lancaster alike. In England s glittering, treacherous court, not all
wish to see the Nevilles raised high. The Earl of Warwick s ambition and
pride lead him into an attempt to depose the Yorkist King; his treason
forces his family into exile. Humiliated and powerless in a foreign
land, Anne must find the courage and the wit to survive in such a
dangerous man s world. Compulsively readable, Anne O Brien vividly
evokes the story of Richard III s queen with a passion and vibrancy
reminiscent of Phillipa Gregory and Alison Weir.
