The Boleyn Inheritance: A Novel (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Book 5)

Review Praise for ‘The Constant Princess’: 'One of Gregory's great strengths as a novelist is her ability to take familiar historical figures and flesh them into living breathing human beings. “The Constant Princess” is a worthy successor to her previous novels about the Tudors and deserves to be a bestseller.' Daily Express 'Gregory's research is impeccable which makes her imaginative fiction all the more convincing.' Daily Mail 'Gregory is great at conjuring a Tudor film-set of gorgeous gowns and golden-plattered dining.' Telegraph 'The contemporary mistress of historical crime. Her novels are filled with strong, determined women who take their fate into their own hands...Gregory brings to life the sights, smells and textures of 16th-century England.' Kate Mosse, Financial Times ‘The Constant Princess’: ‘If romantic historical novels are your cup of tea, The Constant Princess will not disappoint. Gregory vividly reconstructs life in the Spanish royal household, and contributes to the sense of Katherine's foreignness.’ The Times ‘Sweeping historical romance.....her tale almost reads like fiction rather than real history, at least in Gregory's very capable hands.’ The Mirror ‘Philippa Gregory is bang on form again as mistress of the Tudor chronicle, bringing to life all the intrigue of the era with great finesse.’ Daily Express ‘Full of gorgeous scenery, emotional moments and passionate sex’ Sunday Telegraph ‘The Virgin’s Lover’: ‘A book to lose yourself in...a simmering mixture of intrigue, lust and betrayal at the court of Elizabeth I, it breathes new life into the suspected love affair between the young queen and Robert Dudley.’ Daily Mail ‘Convincing and entertaining’. Daily Telegraph ‘Historical fiction at its best.’ Choice ‘An enjoyable read, and Gregory’s energetic writing carries one along.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘A fascinating new take on a story we thought we knew.’ Eve ‘Highly readable, highly enjoyable.’ Manchester City Life ‘History has a sexy makeover in an erotic account of Elizabeth l’s relationship with the married and tantalisingly unavailable Robert Dudley.’ Glamour, Books of the Year ‘Gripping and often moving.’ Image ‘Packed with court intrigue and sumptuous detail.’ Dublin Evening Herald ‘Gregory’s success lies in restoring humanity to her historical figures.’ Daily Mail ‘Gregory vivdly portrays court life – all the political intrigue, divided loyalties, love and betrayal.’ Woman and Home ‘Gregory is one of the best chroniclers of the ups and downs of the turbulent Tudors...This superbly plotted drama unfolds like an exquisitely embroidered Tudor ruff.’ Sainsbury’s Magazine ‘Queen of the historical novel.’ Mail on Sunday ‘Gregory creates an intriguing tale with many an unexpected twist.’ Glasgow Herald ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’: ‘It is a credit to Gregory that she is able to sustain interest in an epic-length tale when the ending is one of the most well-known moments in English history. The very believable dialogue and detail take you all the way into the claustrophobic privy chambers of the royal palaces...Gregory has launched herself into a popular period and produced something with that most underrated of virtues: readability.’ The Times ‘This is an intelligent variation on a familiar tale [with] witty use of metaphor.’ Time Literary Supplement ‘This compulsively readable novel is a wonderful account of the tudor court...This is the finest historical novel of this year.’ Daily Mail ‘The Queen’s Fool’: With her excellent eye for detail, [Gregory] moves The Queen’s Fool along at a great pace.’ Marie Claire Australia ‘Totally absorbing...this is a triumphant piece of storytelling, not least because Gregory manages to make familiar events fresh and unloved people fascinating.’ Gay Times ‘Gregory offers a subtle examination of the tension between profound personal faith and the dangers of imposing that faith on others.’ Jewish Quarterly ‘It combines history and invention in gripping and memorable style.’ Red ‘Gregory weaves a brilliant and complex fictional web around historical fact. Hugely enjoyable.’ Sainsbury’s Magazine ‘Historical fiction at its most masterly. Meticulously researched and realised and with an engaging and totally convincing heroine, “The Queen’s Fool” invites readers to rethink their opinions of both ‘Bloody’ Mary and the ‘Virgin’ Queen. Superbly plotted, exquisitely written with the enviable capacity to simultaneously thrill and provoke thought, this novel is even more ‘unputdownable’ than “The Other Boleyn Girl.”’ Historical Novels Review ‘Gregory serves up some more deliciously sombre moments from a factious Tudor court.’ Independent ‘Gregory’s dramatic, plot-driven novel is thoroughly readable.’ Sunday Herald Product Description From the bestselling author of ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII, and the one woman who destroyed two of his queens. The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. She has her own good reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father, in a country where to her both language and habits are foreign. Although fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings, she senses a trap closing around her. Katherine is confident that she can follow in the steps of her cousin Anne Boleyn to dazzle her way to the throne but her kinswoman Jane Boleyn, haunted by the past, knows that Anne’s path led to Tower Green and to an adulterer’s death. The story of these three young women, trying to make their own way through the most volatile court in Europe at a time of religious upheaval and political uncertainty, is Philippa Gregory’s most compelling novel yet. Fiction; Historical Three women who share one fate: The Boleyn Inheritance: Anne of Cleves: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instantly dislikes her. Without friends, family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable and vengeful king. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witnesses. Katherine Howard: She catches the king's eye within moments of arriving at court, setting in motion the dreadful machine of politics, intrigue, and treason that she does not understand. She only knows that she is beautiful, that men desire her, that she is young and in love -- but not with the diseased old man who made her queen, beds her night after night, and killed her cousin Anne. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the threat of the axe. Jane Rochford: She is the Boleyn girl whose testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths. She is the trusted friend of two threatened queens, the perfectly loyal spy for her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, and a canny survivor in the murderous court of a most dangerous king. Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a title, in exchange for her soul. The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror. Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought a vanished world to life -- the whisper of a silk skirt on a stone stair, the yellow glow of candlelight illuminating a hastily written note, the murmurs of the crowd gathering on Tower Green below the newly built scaffold. In The Boleyn Inheritance Gregory is at her intelligent and page-turning best From "the queen of royal fiction" ( USA TODAY ) comes this New York Times bestseller featuring three very different women whose fates are each bound by a bloody curse: the legacy of the Boleyn family. After the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII of England decides to take a new wife, but this time, not for love. The Boleyn Inheritance follows three women whose lives are forever changed because of the king's decision, as they must balance precariously in an already shaky Tudor Court. Anne of Cleves is to be married to Henry to form a political alliance, though the rocky relationship she has to the king does not bode well for her or for England. Katherine Howard is the young, beautiful woman who captures Henry's eye, even though he is set to marry Anne. Her spirit runs free and her passions run hot—though her affections may not be returned upon the King. Jane Rochford was married to George Boleyn, and it was her testimony that sent her husband and infamous sister-in-law Anne to their deaths. Throughout the country, her name is known for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about three women whose positions brought them wealth, admirations, and power, as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror.