- Kings and rulers, Fiction, Historical fiction, Succession
I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir's enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and resolved.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Alison Weir
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 424
- Publisher
- Large Print Press, Random House Publishing Group, Recorded Books
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781594132414
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