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The Queen's Fool: A Novel (Boleyn)
by: Philippa Gregory

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780743246071
ISBN: 0743246071
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: February 03, 2004
Publisher: Touchstone
Sales Rank: 4648
Studio: Touchstone

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A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love.

It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee. Her gift of 'Sight,' the ability to foresee the future, is priceless in the troubled times of the Tudor court. Hannah is adopted by the glamorous Robert Dudley, the charismatic son of King Edward's protector, who brings her to court as a 'holy fool' for Queen Mary and, ultimately, Queen Elizabeth. Hired as a fool but working as a spy; promised in wedlock but in love with her master; endangered by the laws against heresy, treason, and witchcraft, Hannah must choose between the safe life of a commoner and the dangerous intrigues of the royal family that are inextricably bound up in her own yearnings and desires.

Teeming with vibrant period detail and peopled by characters seamlessly woven into the sweeping tapestry of history, The Queen's Fool is another rich and emotionally resonant gem from this wonderful storyteller.

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- Philippa Gregory is brilliant!
Philippa Gregory hit yet another high note with The Queen's Fool. I love reading Philippa's books because I never feel like I'm reading fact after fact. I feel like I'm reading just another story I love, like Twilight and other books such as those. Even though this is a different genre I never feel as if it's a bunch of facts. The Queen's Fool is a story of a girl named Hannah Verde. Though she changed it to Hannah Green when she came to England. Hannah came to England with her father; her father is a scholor and a bookseller. Back in Spain Hannah's mother was burned to death for being in the Jewish religon. Now her and her father have to keep their religon hidden at all times. While there in England Robert Dudley and his comrad John Dee visit the book shop. John Dee claims that Hannah has the "sight". So Hannah is sent to court to be the King's holy fool. When the king dies at the age of 15 his sister Mary steps ... Read More

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- I don't get the rave reviewing...
I slogged through this novel, hoping to find some redeeming value, only to be disappointed. I found the pace slow, repetitive, and mostly boring. Some of the plot twists were interesting, but barely believable. The main character, Hannah, had no integrity. She curried favor with whomever she happened to be with at the time, and was very disappointing. No heroine here, really. I really wanted to like her, but her feminism and intermittant chutzpa just didn't correlate with what is known about women of the time.

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- The Queen's Fool
Gregory is a great writer. She draws you in immediately and it's hard to put the book down.

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- ANOTHER WINNER
WONDERFUL BOOK, COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN. CAN'T WAIT TO READ THE NEXT BOOK BY GREGORY.

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