The Queen's Fool
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: November 3, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780007147281
First sentence: The girl, giggling and overexcited, was running in the sunlit garden, running away from her stepfather, but not so fast that he could not catch her.
Description: It is winter, 153. Pursued by the inquistion, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee. Her gift of "Sight," the ability to foresee the future, is priceless in the troubled times of the Tudor court. Hannah is adopted by the glamorous Robert Dudley, the charismatic son of King Edward's protector, who brings her to court as a "holy fool" for Queen Mary and ultimately, Queen Elizabeth. Hired as a fool but working as a spy; promised in wedlock but in love with her master; endangered by the laws against heresy, treason, and withcraft, Hannah must choose between the safe life of a commonerand the dangerous intrigues of the royal family that are inextricably bound up in her own yearings and desires. -- back cover.