num_pages: 557
description: 'Not to every young girl is it given to enter the harem of the Sultan of Turkey and return to her homeland a virgin . . .'Sixteen-year-old Philippa Somerville has left Constantinople intact. Returning to England as wife in name only to Francis Crawford of Lymond, she wastes no time in seeking the truth about her new spouse, even as she finds herself navigating the paranoid court of Queen Mary.Lymond, meanwhile, arrives in Moscow to assist its young Tsar Ivan to create a fledgling Russian army. But when he is tasked to visit London as Ivan's envoy his path is bound to cross that of the wife he has sworn to divorce.Yet neither Lymond nor Philippa, caught up in their own scheming, can quite see the vast conspiracy enshrouding them . . .'Lashings of excitement, colour and subtlety' The Times
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Melodrama of the most magnificent kind' The Guardian
language: English
title: The Ringed Castle
titlecomplete: The Ringed Castle (The Lymond Chronicles, #5)
characters: Francis Crawford of Lymond, John Dee, Ivan the Terrible, Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, Philippa Somerville, Mary I of England, Richard Crawford, Güzel, Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, Richard Chancellor
genres: Historical, Classics, Scotland, Adventure, Russia, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, 16th Century, Romance
ratings_count: 3491
places: London, England, Moscow, Russia, Scotland
series: The Lymond Chronicles
publisher: Penguin UK