The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

She is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck University of London. She holds honorary degrees from Teesside University and the University of Sussex. Now a recognised authority on women’s history, Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent and was made Alumna of the Year in 2009. Her flair for blending history and imagination developed into a signature style and Philippa went on to write many bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen. She wrote her first ever novel, Wideacre, when she was completing her PhD in eighteenth-century literature and it sold worldwide, heralding a new era for historical fiction. Philippa Gregory is one of the world’s foremost historical novelists. In The Boleyn Inheritance Gregory is at her intelligent and page-turning best.

Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought a vanished world to life - the whisper of a silk skirt on a stone stair, the yellow glow of candlelight illuminating a hastily written note, the murmurs of the crowd gathering on Tower Green below the newly built scaffold. The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a title, in exchange for her soul. Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust.

She is the trusted friend of two threatened queens, the perfectly loyal spy for her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, and a canny survivor in the murderous court of a most dangerous king. She is the Boleyn girl whose testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the threat of the axe. She only knows that she is beautiful, that men desire her, that she is young and in love - but not with the diseased old man who made her queen, beds her night after night, and killed her cousin Anne.

She catches the king's eye within moments of arriving at court, setting in motion the dreadful machine of politics, intrigue, and treason that she does not understand. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witnesses. Without friends, family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable and vengeful king. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instantly dislikes her. She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. Three Women Who Share One Fate: The Boleyn Inheritance

The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory