num_pages: 421
description: Alison Weir, our pre-eminent popular historian, has now fulfilled a life's ambition to write historical fiction. She has chosen as her subject the bravest, most sympathetic and wronged heroine of Tudor England, Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes, she lived a life in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour. Jane's astonishing and essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history. As a great-niece of Henry VIII, and the cousin of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, she grew up to realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny. Her honesty, intelligence and strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics, to her nine-day reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion.
language: English
title: Innocent Traitor
titlecomplete: Innocent Traitor
characters: Henry VIII of England, Mary I of England, Guildford Dudley, Elizabeth I of England, Lady Jane Grey, Anne Boleyn, Edward VI of England, Catherine Parr
genres: Fiction, 16th Century, Tudor Period, Adult Fiction, British Literature, Religion, Historical, Historical Fiction, Adult, Audiobook
ratings_count: 33381
places: London, England, Sudeley, England, Tower of London, London, England
publisher: Arrow Books