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The Battle of the Queens: (The Plantagenets: book V): a wonderfully evocative and beautifully atmospheric novel from the Queen of English historical fiction (Plantagenet Saga, 5)

The Battle of the Queens: (The Plantagenets: book V): a wonderfully evocative and beautifully atmospheric novel from the Queen of English historical fiction (Plantagenet Saga, 5)

by JeanPlaidy (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

The first half of the thirteenth century is dominated by two women, as proud and ambitious as they were beautiful, yet different in all other qualities. Isabella is flamboyant and passionate, a medieval Helen of Troy - wife to King John and mother to Henry III...Blanche of Castile is the serene and virtuous Queen of France, wife of Louis VIII and mother of Louis IX...The two women hated each other on sight. Isabella would stop at nothing, not even murder, in her passion to destroy the French Queen.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 480
 Publisher: Arrow
Published: 07 Feb 2008
ISBN 10: 009951026X
ISBN 13: 9780099510260
Book Overview: The fifth book in Jean Plaidy's Plantagenet saga tells the fascinating story of the hatred between two queens

Media Reviews
Jean Plaidy doesn't just write the history, she makes it come alive -- Julia Moffat, RNA
Outstanding * Vanity Fair *
Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting * Observer *
Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity * Guardian *
Jean Plaidy's books are a celebration of women's spirit throughout history * Daily Express *
Author Bio
Jean Plaidy, one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also know as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy's novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her death in 1993.