That’s quite a feat, and it shows she’s not afraid to take on enormous challenges in the pursuit of her art. I’ll review it on this blog sometime in the future, I’m sure, but for the moment let me just summarize how much it impressed me: She took the life of Richard III –the last of the Plantagenets who was so vilified by the victorious Tudors that he is remembered as a hunch-backed monster who walled his young nephews up in the Tower of London– and extrapolated who he really was before his enemies twisted his memory. I first came across her work with the Sunne in Splendour. She write hard historical fiction: The history always comes first, and the fiction is sprinkled in just enough to make the real events and people of that time period into a novel.
Her specialty is the Middle Ages of Great Britain and France, and her attention to detail in that time period is every bit as impressive as Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series. I love historical fiction, and she is one of the shining lights of the genre today. Language eng Summary The third installment of a trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine traces the collapse of the royal family in the aftermath of Henry's self-imposed exile to Ireland, as Eleanor and Henry's three eldest sons enter into a rebellion against him Member ofĬataloging source DLC Penman, Sharon Kay Dewey number 813/.54 Index no index present LC call number PS3566.Sharon Kay Penman has recently cemented her place in my pantheon of favourite authors. Eleanor, of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122?-1204 - Fiction.Marriages of royalty and nobility - Fiction.Henry, II, King of England, 1133-1189 - Fiction.
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