The Lady Elizabeth
Subtitle: a novel
By: Alison Weir
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780091796723; 9780091796778
Subjects: Fiction; Childhood and youth; History; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 Childhood and youth Fiction; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 Fiction; Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Fiction
Description: Now, in her second novel, Alison Weir goes to the heart of Tudor England at its most dangerous and faction-riven in telling the story of Elizabeth I before she became Queen. The towering capricious figure of Henry VIII dominates her childhood, but others play powerful roles: Mary, first a loving sister, then as Queen a lethal threat; Edward, the rigid and sad little King; Thomas Seymour, the Lord High Admiral, whose ambitions, both political and sexual, are unbridled. And, an ever-present ghost, the enigmatic, seductive figure of her mother Anne Boleyn, executed by Henry, whose story Elizabeth must unravel." "Elizabeth learns early that the adult world contains many threats that have to be negotiated if she is to keep her heart and her head."--BOOK JACKET.