![]() ![]() I’ll review it on this blog sometime in the future, I’m sure, but for the moment let me just summarize how much it impressed me: She took the life of Richard III –the last of the Plantagenets who was so vilified by the victorious Tudors that he is remembered as a hunch-backed monster who walled his young nephews up in the Tower of London– and extrapolated who he really was before his enemies twisted his memory. I first came across her work with the Sunne in Splendour. ![]() She write hard historical fiction: The history always comes first, and the fiction is sprinkled in just enough to make the real events and people of that time period into a novel. Her specialty is the Middle Ages of Great Britain and France, and her attention to detail in that time period is every bit as impressive as Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series. I love historical fiction, and she is one of the shining lights of the genre today. Sharon Kay Penman has recently cemented her place in my pantheon of favourite authors. ![]()
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