Jane's astonishing and essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history. 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. Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. We can look forward to seeing what subject she'll tackle next.A wrenching novel about the life and death of Lady Jane Grey, one of the most complex and sympathetic figures in Tudor England, by popular historian Alison Weir: ideal for fans of Wolf Hall Weir shows skill at plotting and maintaining tension, and she is clearly going to be a player in the overcrowded historical fiction game.

This is a novel that will grip readers and give great pleasure. The story is so compelling and horrible that even a reader well acquainted with it will be gripped. Lady Jane is brave and intelligent, and if you don't cry at the end you have a heart of stone. Weir's knowledge of the background is immaculate, and she revels in the freedom of fiction without sacrificing historical fact. Daily MailĪlison Weir's hugely popular history books are as gripping as novels, and now she has stepped effortlessly over the boundary. Weir manages her heroine's voice brilliantly, respecting the past's distance while conjuring a dignified and fiercely modern spirit. In her first work of fiction, she sets out to trace the brief life of one of history's most tragic heroines. Read moreĪlison Weir is one of our greatest popular historians.

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.

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. The Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling debut novel from one of Britain's most successful popular historiansĪ wrenching novel about the life and death of Lady Jane Grey, one of the most complex and sympathetic figures in Tudor England, by popular historian Alison Weir: ideal for fans of Wolf Hall

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