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‘A cleverly wrought political novel. In introducing Parr to a new audience, Gregory has done the first lady of English letters something of a favour’
— Sunday Telegraph
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‘Gregory dramatises the story of a reluctant royal wife negotiating the anxious, dangerous years of her marriage… written with her usual authority and capacity for great drama’
— Sunday Times
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‘The Taming of the Queen reads like a clever, intimate thriller’
— The Times
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‘Gregory brilliantly captures the torn loyalties, treacheries and tragedies that lie beneath the historical detail, to entertaining effect’
— Good Housekeeping
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‘The contemporary mistress of historical crime’
— Kate Mosse
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‘Popular historical fiction at its finest, immaculately researched and superbly told’
— The Times
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‘Gregory creates a world in which all but the most determined women are tools in the hands of powerful men… past-paced, convincing, vivid and engrossing’
— Daily Express
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‘Philippa Gregory has another hit on her hands with this gripping page-turner. Her novel simplifies and humanises the complex politics of the period’
— Sunday Times
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‘Lady Margaret Beaufort – cold, clever, calculating – will stop at nothing to put her son Henry Tudor on the throne. Gregory is very good at describing the bitchiness of the women in this tale of dynastic rivalry’
— Daily Telegraph
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‘Rollicking, page-turning stuff’
— Metro
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‘Popular history at its best’
— Daily Mail
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‘Meticulously researched…for each novel she immerses herself in dozens of primary and secondary sources, before transforming them into vivid fiction’
— Sunday Telegraph
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‘History comes gloriously alive as Elizabeth Woodville seduces and marries Yorkist King Edward IV’
— Daily Mirror
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‘Philippa Gregory is truly the mistress of the historical novel. It would be hard to make history more entertaining, lively or engaging’
— Sunday Express
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‘Her novels are filled with strong, determined women who take their fate into their own hands’
— Financial Times
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‘Rarely has history been so seductive’
— Tatler
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‘Gregory makes history come alive ... riveting’
— Daily Express