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The Queen’s Fool by Philippa Gregory

March 18, 2011 by Christina

In April of last year I started reading Gregory’s first novel, Wideacre. At one point, I even considered her a favorite author but that title was removed after reading less than half of Wideacre. I was completely disgusted by the incestuous nature of its characters that it took me until now to pick up another of Gregory’s novels. This time I decided to return to the time of the Tudors with The Queen’s Fool. In the year of 1553, fourteen-year-old […]

Categories: 2011 Reads, Chunkster, Europe, Fiction, United Kingdom • Tags: Philippa Gregory

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Garage Sale Loot

April 25, 2009 by Christina

My mother called earlier this morning to tell me that a garage sale on the next street over had a bunch of Phillipa Gregory books for sale. Garage sales around here usually don’t have books for sale, especially not popular ones like Gregory’s books. So I scurried on down there and picked up four of the seven Gregory book’s available (I already own The Virgin’s Lover and The Other Boleyn Girl; the other one didn’t interest me) for $2. I […]

Categories: Bookish Notes • Tags: Philippa Gregory

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The Virgin’s Lover by Philippa Gregory

June 13, 2008 by Christina

In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth’s ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth’s excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is […]

Categories: 2008 Reads, Chunkster, Europe, Fiction, United Kingdom • Tags: Philippa Gregory

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