![]() ![]() Literally, because it’s 1648 and a woman needs a man to give her substance.Įnter James Summer, who is a Catholic priest working from exile in France to restore the buffoon king of England, Charles I (who in my mind looks strangely like Boris) and trounce Cromwell’s army. He’s gone but not not dead, so our woman Alinor is in no-man’s land. Because he’s a no-hoper or because she’s a witch, one or the other. She has a son and a daughter and her bullying husband has left her. She’s extraordinarily beautiful (of course). Typical Gregory, meticulously researched setting, lots of truth in the detail and flights of ridiculous fancy to drive the story along. I have no desire to binge on Netflix in lockdown but I could re-read every Philippa Gregory on my bookshelves and be happily entertained for a few weeks, in a mindless-but-it’s-still-history sort of way. I got a note from my wonderful local bookshop ( Wardinis, since you ask) when online orders were allowed and thought this latest looked looked the perfect lockdown book. ![]() Apologies to those who were relieved when I recently announced I’d come to the end of my Philippa Gregory phase. ![]()
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