[bksvol-discuss] Just Submitted - The VVirgin's Lover
- From: "Dixie" <BlueHerons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Book Share Volunteer Discussion" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:08:46 -0400
I just submitted with a hold for Sue S
The Virgin's Lover by Phillipa Gregory
In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the
joyous news that
Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread.
She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious
leap to
: the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the
glamorous Tudor court,
where he was born to be.
:. Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a
bankrupt country
where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful
advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a
strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth
desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young
couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his
wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are
suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival.
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