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The Virgin's Lover

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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 rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival.

Philippa Gregory's The Virgin's Lover answers the question about an unsolved crime that has fascinated detectives and historians for centuries. Intelligent, romantic, and compelling, The Virgin's Lover presents a young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition exceeds his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them.

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Blending historical fact with contemporary rumor, the bestselling author of "The Queen's Fool" creates a dark and tense novel of Tudor times, which casts Elizabeth I in a light no one has suggested before. Passionate, fearful, emotionally needy, this is a queen who rules over a feverishly plotting, pleasure-seeking court.
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Philippa Gregory is the author of several bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl. She studied history at the University of Sussex and received a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. Visit her website at PhilippaGregory.com.
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sll, February 10, 2009 (view all comments by sll)
All the blind political favoritism, military machinations, and fawning sycophancy of the Bush administration, but spiced with lots more doublet and bodice ripping!
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octo_monkey3, June 10, 2007 (view all comments by octo_monkey3)
I thought this book was excellent. I'm not really into history but this book helped me understand some of the going ons of the English Court whilst also combining a great plot behind the facts.
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ISBN:
9780743269261
Author:
Gregory, Philippa
Publisher:
Touchstone Books
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
History
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Historical - General
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Murder victims
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General Fiction
Subject:
Historical fiction
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Fiction
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Biographical fiction
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Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
2005
Edition Description:
B102
Publication Date:
August 2005
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TRADE PAPER
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General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
464
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8 x 5.25 in 13.09 oz
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