Book description
Alison Weir, our pre-eminent popular historian, has now fulfilled a
life's ambition to write historical fiction. She has chosen as her
subject the bravest, most sympathetic and wronged heroine of Tudor
England, Lady Jane Grey.
Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. Child of a
scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she was merely a pawn
in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes, she lived a life in
thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour.
Jane's astonishing and essentially tragic story was played out
during one of the most momentous periods of English history. As a
great-niece of Henry VIII, and the cousin of Edward VI, Mary I and
Elizabeth I, she grew up to realize that she could never throw off the
chains of her destiny. Her honesty, intelligence and strength of
character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor
power politics, to her nine-day reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion.
Alison Weir lives and works in Surrey. Her books include
Britain's
Royal Families;
The Six Wives of Henry VIII;
Children of England;
Eleanor of Aquitaine;
Henry VIII: King and Court;
Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley;
Isabella: She-Wolf of France,
Queen of England;
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous
Duchess;
and the novels,
Innocent Traitor
and
The Lady Elizabeth.
