Blood is thicker than water – unless the King decrees othewise.A compelling first-person narration of childhood, as told by Henry VIII's daughter, Mary Tudor. History remembers her only as «Bloody Mary» because of the brutality of her reign, but this compelling recreation of her childhood brings alive the contradictions and conflicts and true danger of being the daughter of a 'divorced' queen as her father falls under the spell of the «witch» Anne Boleyn and why such an apparently privileged...
A matter of life and death – and the Throne of EnglandCompanion volume to Mary, Bloody Mary. Set in the 16th Century, this tells of the danger and conflict Elizabeth Tudor faced after the death of her father, Henry VIII. Once again told from a young girl's point of view, we follow Elizabeth's teenage years through the turbulent reigns of her young brother Edward, and then her half-sister Mary who becomes her mortal enemy.
