After publishing nine history books, writing this novel filled me with a heady sense of freedom. Having been the victim of abuse in childhood, she was sold into an unhappy marriage and forced to accept a crown she did not want, then tragically paid the price of her so called treason. She was a young girl of royal blood who was used by greedy and unscrupulous men to satisfy their own ambitions. Alison Weir states 'Lady Jane Grey's story is compelling and shocking. Her honesty, intelligence and strength of character carries the enthralled reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics, to her nine day reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion. Growing up with the future Queen Elizabeth and her reluctant nemesis Mary, she soon learns the truth of the values imparted to her by Henry VIII's last Queen, Katherine Parr.
Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother for whom she is a pawn in a dynastic game with the highest stakes, she lived a life in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour. Lady Jane Grey was born into the most dangerous of times. Not price clipped (£12.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, remains of old sticky labels on front jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON TITLE PAGE. First edition, subsequent printing with number line '3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'.
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