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Young Bess

Author: Margaret Irwin

Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780749080211
Pages: 272
Rights: World English
Pub. Date: 27th August 2007

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Price: £7.99

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The first in Margaret Irwin's great trilogy of novels about the life of 'Good Queen Bess' begins with her childhood, the execution of her mother, Anne Boleyn, banishment from her father's Court and restoration by Henry VIII's last wife, Katherine Parr. After the king's death Katherine marries Tom Seymour but he seeks higher stakes: the king's daughter, second in line to the throne, is a great attraction and the adolescent Elizabeth finds herself dangerously beguiled.

Don`t miss the next two books in the trilogy: Elizabeth, Captive Princess and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain.

‘An evocative historical writer…her writing style brings the period to life and evokes both the threat and romance in the young princess’s life’My Weekly

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‘Vivid and psychologically brilliant. This spirited novel enriches the imagination’Times Literary Supplement

‘To her brilliant sense of period, Miss Irwin adds an artist’s view of relativity – the two are combined with the most finished skill’Country Life

‘Margaret Irwin’s books have an unsurpassed colour and gusto’The Times

‘I doubt if anyone could create more perfectly than Miss Irwin the illusion of a vanished age’Observer

'One of Britain’s most accomplished historical novelists. Her love and respect for the past shines through every page’Sarah Dunant, author of In the Company of the Courtesan