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Mistress of Mourning : A Novel by Karen Harper (2012, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100451236904
ISBN-139780451236906
eBay Product ID (ePID)109082937
Product Key Features
Book TitleMistress of Mourning : a Novel
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2012
TopicMystery & Detective / Historical, Romance / Historical / Tudor, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorKaren Harper
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight12.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2011-053251
Reviews"No other author captures the Tudors like Karen Harper...an exceptional storyteller." --Susan Holloway Scott, author of The Countess and the King "The grief of a sister and mother who also happens to be queen of England combines with the fire and spirit of a lovely wax-worker in Karen Harper's riveting tale of just what might have happened to the princes in the tower and to the first Tudor crown prince." --Karleen Koen, New York Times bestselling author of Through a Glass Darkly and Before Versailles "Beloved author Karen Harper brings Elizabeth of York to vivid life… Through the eyes of charming and adventurous wax chandler, Varina Westcott, the tumultuous era of the new-born Tudor dynasty is depicted as it surely was-a time rife with danger, passion and murder. The exciting story and its appealing heroine kept me reading late into the night with sheer enjoyment." --Sandra Worth, author of Pale Rose of England and The King's Daughter "Much like her endearing chandler heroine, Varina, Karen Harper warmly illuminates a little-explored craft and two persistent royal mysteries, skillfully melding the hearts and lives of the high and low born…delivers adventure, romance, and surprise…" - Sandra Byrd, author of To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn, "No other author captures the Tudors like Karen Harper...an exceptional storyteller." --Susan Holloway Scott, author of The Countess and the King "The grief of a sister and mother who also happens to be queen of England combines with the fire and spirit of a lovely wax-worker in Karen Harper's riveting tale of just what might have happened to the princes in the tower and to the first Tudor crown prince." --Karleen Koen, New York Times bestselling author of Through a Glass Darkly and Before Versailles "Beloved author Karen Harper brings Elizabeth of York to vivid life... Through the eyes of charming and adventurous wax chandler, Varina Westcott, the tumultuous era of the new-born Tudor dynasty is depicted as it surely was--a time rife with danger, passion and murder. The exciting story and its appealing heroine kept me reading late into the night with sheer enjoyment." --Sandra Worth, author of Pale Rose of England and The King's Daughter "Much like her endearing chandler heroine, Varina, Karen Harper warmly illuminates a little-explored craft and two persistent royal mysteries, skillfully melding the hearts and lives of the high and low born...delivers adventure, romance, and surprise..." -- Sandra Byrd, author of To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
SynopsisIn a gripping historical novel of suspense and romance from the national bestselling author of The Queen's Governess, two women fight to defeat the enemies of the precarious Tudor monarchy by uncovering the secrets of the dead... London, 1501. In a time of political unrest, Varina Westcott, a young widow and candle maker for court and church, agrees to perform a clandestine service for Queen Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII--carve wax figures of four dead children, two of her offspring lost in infancy and her two brothers, the Princes of the Tower, whose mysterious disappearance years ago has never been solved. Having lost a child herself, Varina feels a sympathetic bond with the queen. And as she works under the watchful eye of handsome Nicholas Sutton, an ambitious assistant to the royals, she develops feelings of quite a different nature... Then news comes from Wales of the unexpected death of newly married Prince Arthur, the queen's eldest child and heir to the throne. Deeply grieving, Elizabeth suspects that Arthur did not die of a sudden illness, as reported, but was actually murdered by her husband's enemies. This time her task for Varina and Nicholas is of vital importance--travel into the Welsh wilderness to investigate the prince's death. But as the couple unearths one unsettling clue after another, they begin to fear that the conspiracy they're confronting is far more ambitious and treacherous than even the queen imagined. And it aims to utterly destroy the Tudor dynasty., In a gripping historical novel of suspense and romance, two women fight to defeat the enemies of the precarious Tudor monarchy by uncovering the secrets of the dead.... London, 1501. In a time of political unrest, Varina Westcott, a young widow and candle maker for court and church, agrees to perform a clandestine service for Queen Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII--carve wax figures of four dead children, two of her offspring lost in infancy and her two brothers, the Princes of the Tower, whose mysterious disappearance years ago has never been solved. Having lost a child herself, Varina feels a sympathetic bond with the queen. And as she works under the watchful eye of handsome Nicholas Sutton, an ambitious assistant to the royals, she develops feelings of quite a different nature.... Then news comes from Wales of the unexpected death of newly married Prince Arthur, the queen's eldest child and heir to the throne. Deeply grieving, Elizabeth suspects that Arthur did not die of a sudden illness, as reported, but was actually murdered by her husband's enemies. This time her task for Varina and Nicholas is of vital importance--travel into the Welsh wilderness to investigate the prince's death. But as the couple unearths one unsettling clue after another, they begin to fear that the conspiracy they're confronting is far more ambitious and treacherous than even the queen imagined. And it aims to utterly destroy the Tudor dynasty.
LC Classification NumberPS3558.A624792M56
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