Shadow on the crown
By: Patricia Bracewell
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780670026395
Subjects: Fiction; History; Normans; Queens
Description: Marrying the much-older king of England in the year 1002, sixteen-year-old Emma of Normandy is surrounded by a treacherous court and regarded as a threat by her husband before drawing on her wits to gain a few friends and protect her station.